Resources
- First Peoples’ Cultural Council On-Line Learning Series. Recordings available on their youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuSBPAeMBxMl5X8DUpIXxOrkR-BgU7aDy
- Lingít: a Love Language for Community — Taku River Tlingit First Nation and UBCO Partner to Document Language Reclamation and Resilience.
- CARFAC Public Art Toolkit. The toolkit aims to provide a baseline for best practices for contract and payment standards in public art. Public art projects require professional artists to dedicate significant time to ensure successful completion. Commissioners must respect that professional artists working in public art have expertise and skills similar to architects, engineers, construction project managers, and contractors. The materials in the Toolkit serve as a crucial starting point for artists and commissioners when planning public art projects across Canada.
- Endangered Language Program’s 2024 Language Documentation Training Webinar Series. These webinars are co-hosted by the Endangered Languages Project (www.endangeredlanguages.com) and the Language Documentation Training Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (www.ldtc.org).
- Safeguarding Your Language Through Documentation. 2024. Written Aiyana Twigg for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, this toolkit is for Indigenous language learners, Knowledge Holders, youth, and anyone else who wants to contribute to the work of Indigenous language documentation and revitalization. Designed for people without formal training in linguistics, documentation or technology, it is an easy-to-use guide to equipment options, ethical considerations, how to set up a recording session, content considerations, elicitation strategies and more.
- IBPOC Museum Professionals Network Podcast Series. In each episode, Network Coordinator Jazmin sits down with a professional or volunteer in the cultural sector to chat about the projects they are passionate about, why they do the work they do, and what advice they would give to emerging IBPOC professionals.
- Métis Speaker Series: Season Five: https://www.mnbc.ca/news-events/metis-speaker-series
- Language Revitalization Mentors Program. Endangered Languages Program: We are here to help! Talk with an ELP Language Revitalization Mentor to get support, ask questions, connect to learning resources, and discuss your language revitalization work with a helpful person.
- National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages- Training Modules: https://mc.miamioh.edu/nbol/training/index
· Words of our Ancestors. (MNBC). An Introduction to Michif and Indigenous Language Revitalization.
· Creating Online Indigenous Language Courses. NEȾOLṈEW̱. Visit: https://www.youtube.com/@netolnew991
International Decade of Indigenous Languages
The Global Task Force for Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages was officially launched by UNESCO with participation of Member States, indigenous peoples’ organizations, three-party United Nations mechanisms, the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
September 2023. Assembly of First Nations. First Nations National Action Plan for the United Nations International Decade of Indigenous Languages.
April 22, 2022. Canadian Launch of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. https://rcgs.org/indigenous-languages/
March 17, 2022. FPCC website for Decade of Indigenous Languages. https://fpcc.ca/stories/the-decade-of-indigenous-languages/
November 16, 2021. Read the Global Action Plan: https://www.unesco.org/en/decades/indigenous-languages/about/action-plan
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://idil2022-2032.org/
Federal Indigenous Languages Act
- Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages: https://commissionforindigenouslanguages.ca/
- DCH Indigenous Languages website: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/culture/canadian-identity-society/languages/indigenous.html and the recordings of the Indigenous Languages Symposium in January 2021.
- Dr. Lorna Williams presents to the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs: Indigenous Language Study. February 1, 2023. Listen/read the full session: https://openparliament.ca/committees/indigenous-affairs/44-1/48/
- June 2023. Reclaiming, Revitalizing, Maintaining and Strengthening Indigenous Languages in Canada: Report of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs. https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/INAN/report-9/
- Assembly of First Nations Fact Sheet: First Nations language funding fact sheet: https://afn.bynder.com/m/1fa00c203bb77e39/original/Languages-Funding-Factsheet-2023.pdf
- October 6, 2023. Assembly of First Nations. Languages and Learning Issues Update: https://afn.bynder.com/m/1402ce53e410762e/original/Languages-and-Learning-Issues-Update.pdf