As a language teacher, I love the idea of incorporating more Indigenous language learning into the classroom. This video is short, sweet and to the point. It provides 5 easy ways of supporting Indigenous language revitalization in Canada. As we have read in this week’s readings, language is an important part of Indigenous culture and knowledge.
The main suggestions for support from the video are :
- Learn a greeting and a response from an Indigenous language
- Learn more Indigenous phrases and words through smart phone apps (such as First Voices)
- Learn the names of local mountains, lakes, towns and rivers in a local Indigenous language (I hope to to do this with my students next week!)
- Watch a movie or TV show in an Indigenous language
- Listen to artists in an Indigenous language
These five suggestions remind me of the following First Peoples Principle of Learning :
Hi Olivia,
This was really helpful. Thank you for including it.
It is also very comprehensive and accessible for my international students so I can free up teaching time to focus on concepts, rather than lexical or grammatical issues of the language.
This eased the cognitive load enabling us to transform our classroom into a more equitable, diverse, inclusive, decolonized and antiracist space.