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Aboriginal Adult Literacy: Nourturing Their Learning Spirits

This report report (2008) was prepared for the Canadian Council on Learning’s Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre by Ningwakwe Priscilla George.  It is a literature review on Aboriginal literacy.  Some of the emerging themes include community-based (one-on-one, small group), institutional, workplace,
family, health/well-being, oral history, working with Elders and seniors, and Aboriginal language programming.  While focusing on adult literacy, the report emphasizes the importance of family literacy and lifelong

learning.www.nald.ca/library/research/ccl/nourishing/nourishing.pdf

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Healthy Aboriginal Network

Healthy Aboriginal Network creates comic books that are designed to promote literacy, health and wellness. Their goal is to make aboriginal social issues ‘cool’. Some of their comics are placed on their YouTube channel to test the story and concept before publishing the comic. CTV BC | First Story also mentioned Healthy Aboriginal Network in the Second part (3 of 4) of their episode titled “Garden, Comics, Vanishing”.

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