Revolutionary method is helping preserve the endangered Stoney Nakoda language
(MORLEY, Alberta) – The Stoney Education Authority with The Language Conservancy is hosting a Rapid Word Collection (RWC) event in Alberta that started earlier this…
Indigenous Languages
Supporting Indigenous languages in Southern Alberta
(Calgary) – The Government of Canada is investing more than $1.5 million over two years in Indigenous languages in Calgary and the surrounding areas. This…
Xavier Kataquapit: For the love of language
by Xavier Kataquapit (August 20, 2019) – Most of the time we take the language we speak for granted. We were brought up speaking one…
UAlberta course teaches about Treaties
(ANNews) – A unique three-month writing course, A Poetics of Treaty, Creative Writing 494, will be held again at the University of Alberta this coming…
Inuit express disappointment with the Indigenous languages bill
(February 2019) – Unlike the Assembly of First Nations and the Metis National Council the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) are expressing disappointment with the Inidgenous Languages…
Language Revitalization Pole to be carved in recognition of the 2019 Year of Indigenous Languages
January 2019, Vancouver, B.C. – In recognition of the UN 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, which officially launched January 28, 2019 in Paris, the First…
UN Year of Indigenous Languages 2019 shines a spotlight on the fight to save Indigenous languages
Coast Salish Traditional Territory/Vancouver: On January 28, representatives from the First Nations Leadership Council and the First Peoples’ Cultural Council attended the official global launch…
Indigenous Languages Resource Centre to open at the Central Library in Calgary
(January 23, 2019) – A new program at Calgary’s Central Library will make Indigenous resources more accessible and help preserve history, culture and language. The…
ACAD offers free Dené revitalization language course to the Calgary community
Calgary, Alta. – The Alberta College of Art + Design (ACAD) and the Lodgepole Center, ACAD’s Indigenous resource space have partnered with the Tsuut’ina Nation…
Indigenous Language Programs get a boost in Southern Alberta
(April 2018) – The Government of Canada has recently announced approximately $1,001,500 in funding to organizations in Southern Alberta via the Aboriginal Languages Initiative (ALI)….