Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 14: Language and Culture (13-17)

Aboriginal Languages Initiative

April 27, 2018

Aboriginal Languages Initiative (ALI) has distributed approximately $1.5M to Southern Alberta to support various initiatives. This includes:

  • Almost $200,000 for the Tsuut’ina Nation’s Tsuut’ina Gunaha School Language Incorporation Strategy
  • approximately $141,000 for Opokaa’sin Early Intervention Society’s Blackfoot Language Keepers,
  • $358,000 for Peigan Board of Education Society’s Piikani Language Revitalization Project,
  • $80,000 for the Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary,
  • approximately $124,000 for Pathways Community Services Association’s Indigenous Languages and Literacy Program: Cree Language, and
  • $98,500 for Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary: Alberta’s Indigenous Languages and Literacy Program.