This is Lindsay Morcom. She talks about the history of indigenous languages and how to revitalize them. She spoke about residential schools and how when you build a school and then build a cemetery right beside it because you know the students will die, what do you call that? The talk is from February 2019.
She speaks about what is needed:
- Policy – that there is attached funding with active policy and that on-reserve schools and off-reserve schools need equal funding. Special note that this is also a call to action
- Support – that there needs to be space to carry out activities and have access to immersion education in traditional languages and that there needs to be education for the non-indigenous populations
Her statement that reconciliation that does not result in the survival of language in the people is assimilation and not reconciliation.