ABSTRACT. Mi'kmaq is a First Nations language spoken in Atlantic Canada and the north-eastern United States -- and like most surviving indigenous languages in North America, it is at risk. The small community of Wagmatcook, Cape Breton, determined to see Mi'kmaq return from the brink of extinction, has implemented two initiatives that are changing the fate of their language. In the first initiative teachers, day care workers and community members completed a Certificate in Aboriginal Literacy Education. The participants in this program upgraded their skills in reading, writing and speaking Mi'kmaq. As a follow-up initiative, many of these same participants completed a series of workshops to develop books written in Mi'kmaq targeted for pre-...
Through aggressive legislative and educational policies Indigenous languages globally have been shi...
My dissertation focuses on a major problem found in Cree language retention efforts and in Cree educ...
The Dene (Indian) languages of the MacKenzie Valley of the Northwest Territories are Chipewan...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the restoration of the Mi'kmaq language and culture on ...
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tân'si? With the recommendations made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to...
This thesis explores the remarkable journey to save a dying language by a small group of people on t...
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The Spirit of the Language project looks to the Spirit of nêhiyawêwin (Cree language), sources of di...
Motivating Aboriginal youth to complete their education is of great importance, not only to the futu...
This is a documentation of (1) Ojibwa language loss at Keweenaw Bay from 1600 to 1976, (2) efforts m...
This article explores the motivations, methods, and coordination of one Indigenous peuple, the Anish...
Through aggressive legislative and educational policies Indigenous languages globally have been shi...
My dissertation focuses on a major problem found in Cree language retention efforts and in Cree educ...
The Dene (Indian) languages of the MacKenzie Valley of the Northwest Territories are Chipewan...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the restoration of the Mi'kmaq language and culture on ...
Waaciye, Maya nitishinikaas, Kaministiqua nitoonci, Amik Dodem. Aasha ni-kakwe-nitaa Anishinaabem. M...
Kwak’wala, the language of the Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw, like the languages of all Indigenous peoples of Brit...
Skwxwú7mesh snichim, Squamish language was declared the official language of the Skwxwú7mesh-ullh ...
Indigenous languages are at risk of extinction all over the world. While revitalization approaches r...
tân'si? With the recommendations made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to...
This thesis explores the remarkable journey to save a dying language by a small group of people on t...
This paper gives an overview of ongoing revitalisation efforts for Kanien’keha / Mohawk, one of the ...
The Spirit of the Language project looks to the Spirit of nêhiyawêwin (Cree language), sources of di...
Motivating Aboriginal youth to complete their education is of great importance, not only to the futu...
This is a documentation of (1) Ojibwa language loss at Keweenaw Bay from 1600 to 1976, (2) efforts m...
This article explores the motivations, methods, and coordination of one Indigenous peuple, the Anish...
Through aggressive legislative and educational policies Indigenous languages globally have been shi...
My dissertation focuses on a major problem found in Cree language retention efforts and in Cree educ...
The Dene (Indian) languages of the MacKenzie Valley of the Northwest Territories are Chipewan...