Post #3: Preserving Indigenous Languages

https://www.firstvoices.com/ is a website designed to support Indigenous people engaged in language archiving, language teaching and culture revitalization. Here, you can click on a language and find information relating to the people who speak it, recordings of the language and other artefacts. For example, the “she shashishalhem” language page will tell you that this language is spoken by the Shishalh Nation. “Our goal as shishalh people is to preserve our language, culture, and history of the Shishalh Nation. We have only 7 (seven) fluent speakers left and we have four younger teachers working with the elders and in the schools to keep our language going and alive.”