Bringing Back Aboriginal Culture
CTV Winnipeg: Officials Hope Education Program Will Help Preserve Aboriginal Language
I thought this was a great link because it shows that action is being taken to bring back aboriginal languages in Winnipeg. This link is for an article and a new clip talking about some schools in Winnipeg that have begun to offer students of all backgrounds the opportunity to learn the Ojibwe language. This a great means of reintroducing tradition culture from that region and a way of decolonizing.
Dozens of Aboriginal Languages Near Death: UNESCO
The second link is for a video and article based on data from the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO. A linguistic professor who teaches Aboriginal languages talks about the data that has been collected around Aboriginal language loss. Many languages have already been lost and about 88 languages are endangering of extinction. There is a fear that these languages will be lost altogether or they will only remain in written format as no one will be able to speak the languages anymore.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20091106/dying_languages_091108/
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