Resources – May 2024
Training, courses, policies and other useful information. Check out all these amazing resources.
- A Guide to Language Revitalization: Promising Education Practices for Consideration by First Nations Schools. (2023). A publication of the First Nations Education Steering Committee and the First Nations Schools Association. This resource is intended to supplement other FNESC resources on language revitalization, including McIvor’s (2015) Reviving Your Language Through Education: B.C. First Nations Language Education Planning Workbook and Ignace’s (2016) First Nations Language Curriculum Building Guide. Those resources describe more comprehensive approaches to planning and curriculum development.
- VIU students Kimberly Baines and Jesse Scott-Bradley host show. Indigenous Echoes, with hosts Kimberly Baines and Jesse Scott-Bradley, is a new radio show which celebrates and encourages the revitalization of Indigenous languages. Season One will begin broadcasting next month (march) on CHLY 101.7 FM in Nanaimo. Episodes in the show explore the relationship between language and culture, and what happens when an individual feels close ties to their culture but does not know that culture’s language. Season two of Indigenous Echoes is currently in pre-production.
- Canadian Conservation Institute/Canadian Heritage Information Training and Learning Calendar: https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/training-learning/training-learning-calendar.html?mc_cid=c1f078ae8d&mc_eid=14e3a90b52
- 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.
- IBPOC Museum Professionals Network. Cultivating Careers Series: https://museum.bc.ca/brain/ibpoc-network-cultivating-careers-series/
- Words and Cultures. Words and Culture weaves conversations with Indigenous language and knowledge keepers together with music by Indigenous artists. The team creating this original content is made up exclusively of Indigenous producers, hosts and guests. Words and Culture is funded by SiriusXM Canada through the Community Radio Fund of Canada. https://www.wordsandculture.ca/
National Breath of Live Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages- Training Modules: https://mc.miamioh.edu/nbol/training/index
2023 Language Documentation Training Webinars. Endangered Languages Project.
Indigenous Protocols for the Visual Arts. https://www.indigenousprotocols.art/
Indigenous Language Education Policy in Canada: https://indigenouslanguagepolicy.ca/
Amelia Douglas Institute for Métis Culture and Language Website: https://ameliadouglasinstitute.ca/
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
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