#DataBack Fellowship. The #DataBack Fellowship gives you one year free access to Niiwin, plus hands-on support from our team. You’re not just getting software, you’ll also be shaping how technology serves communities and joining a movement to transform data management. Who Should Apply: Indigenous nations with community resources to protect. Museums replacing colonial cataloging systems. Researchers seeking ethical data repositories. Environmental groups tracking climate data. Any values-driven organization with an Indigenous connection that’s ready to leave extractive platforms behind. Applications close January 14th by EOD
Logo Commission. The Council of the Haida Nation, Coastal First Nations, and rogers are seeking a Haida artist to create a logo to represent our upcoming project: Let’s Talk About Cellular Connection on Haida Gwaii’s Highway 16!
Applications are open: Ready to Revitalize: an Online Learning Series. This 8-week course, starting in late January 2026, will bring together 20 language champions from around the world to gain practical skills and knowledge in language revitalization, and to share their experiences and ideas. During this course, participants will work with the Endangered Language Project Language Revitalization Mentors to design a revitalization project in their communities. By the end, you will have skills, connections, and knowledge to support you in revitalizing your language.
Submissions Are Now Open. Submit your work to the world’s largest Indigenous film and media arts Festival! Submissions for the 2026 Festival are officially open from October 1, 2025 to January 9, 2026. The upcoming 26th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival will take place in-person at the TIFF Lightbox in Toronto from June 2-7, 2026, and move to our online streaming and iNdigital platforms from June 8-14, 2026.
Endangered Language Project. Help us grow our collaborative library of materials to support language work around the world. Share a resource at: https://endangeredlanguages.com/share-resource We’ll randomly select one person who contributes a resource in the next 24 hours to win an ELP t-shirt! Winners will be announced at the September 19 launch event.
MNBC is developing an application process to select the first group of Métis artists, creators, and business owners to be featured on the new website. Whether rooted in traditional techniques or reimagined through a modern lens, our goal is to have the Trading Post be a showcase of authentic Métis art, music, literature, and more in B.C.
Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) Introductory Online Language Course. January 6, 2026 – March 3. This course is open to everyone – both Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants who wish to learn to uplift language revitalization. Language instructor Sarah Wood is a member of Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation and currently resides in Peterborough, ON, where she is completing her PhD in Indigenous Studies at Trent University. She has been learning Anishinaabemowin for 6 years. She is also a part-time faculty member at Brock University, Trent University and Biidwewdamowaad Nimkiig Biidaabang teaching Anishinaabemowin and an immersion facilitator and language teacher at Ninaatigoons Learning.
Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) Introductory Language Course. January – March, 2026. 8 x 90min Online Classes. This course is open to everyone – Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults who wish to learn to uplift language revitalization. This fun and engaging Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) course introduces participants to pronouncing the language’s unique sounds, writing with the orthography (alphabet), and creating nouns and verbs from a variety of prefixes, root words, and suffixes – just like in Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) and other related Haudenosaunee languages. Language Instructor: Schuyler Chew is Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Wolf clan enrolled at Six Nations of the Grand River and grew up on the Tuscarora Nation. He first began learning Skarù·ręʔ at the Tuscarora Elementary School in grades K to 6 and recommitted to adult langauge learning after completing undergrad studies. He attended the American Indian Language Development Institute in 2015 and the Tuscarora Language Summer Camp in 2018. Early Bird Registration until August 31: $160 ($20/session). Indigenous Participants: FREE or an option to contribute a smaller amount (50% discount) to support this course ($10/session).
Mi’kmaw Introductory Language Course. January 21, 2026 – March 4, 2026. Mi’kmaw is the language of the Mi’kmaq. Reclaiming Mi’kmaw language is an act of liberation for Indigenous people and allyship of community peace for non-Indigenous people. This course is open to everyone – Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults who wish to learn to uplift language revitalization. If you are a non-Indigenous language learner, we invite you to review these reflections on what it means to be a non-Indigenous learner in an Indigenous language learning course. Course Instructor: Savvy Simon is the Mother of Waseteg & Nakoa, the granddaughter of Sarah Simon o’, a residential school survivor (her biggest language inspiration), Motivational Speaker, Workshop Host, Medicine Woman, Birth Doula, & joy to be around! Reserve: Elsipogtog First Nation. Early Bird Registration until November 30: $120 ($20/session). Indigenous Participants: FREE, or an option to contribute a smaller amount (50% off regular) to support this course ($10/session)
Kanyen’keha (Mohawk) Introductory Language Course. January 6, 2026 – February 24, 2026. 8 x 90 minutes online classes. This course is open to everyone – Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults who wish to learn to uplift language revitalization. If you are a non-Indigenous language learner, we invite you to review these reflections on what it means to be a non-Indigenous learner in an Indigenous language learning course. In this course we will introduce a little vocabulary and a lot of the grammatical structure of Kanyen’kéha (the “Mohawk” language). It begins with the sound system and alphabet and ends with students being able to introduce themselves, make complex statements, ask and answer questions. This course will be taught using the Ohswekén:’a, the Grand River dialect. The colonial names of the geographic regions that this course would be most applicable for are Ontario, Quebec and New York. Your Language Instructor: Tahnee Bennett, Mohawk, Turtle Clan from Six Nations. Tahnee is a 3 year Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa Mohawk Immersion graduate. Upon graduation she was employed teaching Kanyen’keha as a second language in the public schools. She endeavored to do this because she never got the opportunity to learn her language or any Indigenous language when she attended public school. Early Bird Registration: $160 ($20/session) until November 30 / $200 ($25/session) after November 30. Indigenous Participants: FREE or option to contribute a smaller amount (75% off regular) to support this course.
