The Aboriginal Canada Portal website is collaboration between a number of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal organizations including the:
- Government of Canada,
- Assembly of First Nations
- Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
- Métis National Council
- Native Women’s Association of Canada
- Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers
The portal has a huge potential for a wide range of starting points for research topics and information for this course.
Of particular interest to me was the Language, Heritage and Culture link. This page provides an overview and serves as a launch pad for a number of related links including: “Artists” which links to an alphabetized list of websites of Aboriginal performing and visual artists in Canada; “Languages” links to a list of links to pages discussing language related issues including online lessons. One of the Languages links to online lessons. One lesson in Inuktitut includes a rather strange exercise with a song written in Inuktitut (Aqqutialuk surappuq) and intended to be sung to the music of “London Bridge is Falling Down”. The audio was not working at the time of this post. Perhaps this lesson has been abandoned.
Another link from the Language, Heritage and Culture page is to Media and multimedia page. There are a huge range of links that could provide research topic insights into Indigenous knowledge, and the impact of globalization. The page links to the APTN television network website, and to Digital Drum which hosts a number of Internet videos, links to blogs, and audio content about current issues close to Indigenous cultures. For example, one video talks about being an “Eagle woman”.
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