I was happy to see that Simon Fraser University is recently concerned with saving Indigenous languages (one of them the Shuswap language) and discussed a $2.5 million dollar grant for the next 7 years that will be provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to help revitalize languages throughout B.C. and the Yukon.

Since I am focusing on the Shuswap language for my final paper, I was pleased to come across this information that proves that the Canadian government is making an effort to help the Shuswap save their language.  The SSHRC will be working together with Aboriginal groups that speak at least 11 aboriginal languages, in hopes to maintaining and revitalizing them.

Having this money would be a great asset, however I can see that a project like this would be monumental.  It would require sending people into these communities to discuss the best ways to preserve the languages and at the same time, interview the elders who speak these languages before they pass on.

http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media-releases/2013/saving-indigenous-languages-among-key-projects.html