Resources
Canadian Red Cross is offering their Disaster Preparedness Virtual Learning Series in September
- Canadian Red Cross: Prepared Together: Disaster Preparedness Virtual Learning Series. September 10 – 26, 2024. As the effects of climate change continue to impact communities across the country, the Canadian Red Cross is committed to supporting people and communities to prepare for, increase their resilience to, and respond to future disasters.
- Métis Speaker Series: Season Five: https://www.mnbc.ca/news-events/metis-speaker-series
- Conservation Treatment Services in 2025–2026. The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) is now accepting applications for conservation treatment services in 2025–2026! The deadline to submit applications is October 15, 2024. CCI offers conservation treatment services to Canadian museums, archives, libraries and cultural centres for objects and works of art in order to prevent further deterioration, to aid interpretation or to re-establish culturally significant qualities. Please note that the following types of objects will be considered in the current review period: furniture and wooden objects, textiles, photos, books.
- Arts BC Hotline. Working in the arts and culture industry often requires us to navigate quickly through new and unfamiliar challenges. We know this, and we’ve created our Arts Hotline service with the aim of making it easier for you to get the support and trouble-shooting you need on all things arts, culture and community-focused.
- Northeast Documentation Centre: Ready or not: Disaster Preparedness for Community Archives. NEDCC’s “Ready – Or Not” project funded by the California State Library conducts emergency preparedness assessments of California organizations stewarding cultural resources. Following each visit, the project delivers a report with recommendations for mitigating risks, taking emergency preparedness actions, and completing a disaster plan, ensuring that California’s cultural heritage is preserved in the future. 10 short videos on this playlist.
- A New Chapter fort he Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Lunch and Learn. July 25, 2024. California Association of Museums.
- The Fifty-Ninth International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages papers are now available. https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/
- 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 Live Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages- Training Modules: https://mc.miamioh.edu/nbol/training/index
· Indigenous Protocols for the Visual Arts. https://www.indigenousprotocols.art/
· 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://en.unesco.org/idil2022-2032/globalactionplan
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