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First Voices Keyboards #2

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/firstvoices-keyboards/id1066651145?mt=8

Similar to my previous post, this app is also developed by the First Peoples’ Cultural Council. It is an Indigenous language keyboard app for Apple and Android mobile devices.

“The FirstVoices Keyboard App contains keyboard software for over 100 languages, and includes every First Nations language in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, plus many languages in the USA.”

Several Indigenous people I know recommend this app, as it allows them to communicate in emails, texts, social media, etc., in their mother tongue. It provides the syllabics and characters that the QWERTY keyboard does not.

Post #2: Driftscape (app)

https://www.driftscape.com/home

This app provides information place, event, and tour information related to First Nations in Toronto as a map overlay (it provides other non-First Nations overlays as well, which can be toggled on and off).

This app is useful to understand the oft-ignored local First Nations history, geography, and culture of Toronto, and also provides a great (app or map) template for other places outside of Toronto. I think situating oneself in this way is important when beginning research as the local features predominantly in much of Indigenous literature.