Tag: indigenous
Canada Freezes NWT Language Allocation
The federal funding allocation for Indigenous language programs in the Northwest Territories (NWT) has stalled at CAN$5.9 million per year for the next three...
New Federal Funds for Native Languages
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced over $7 million in new...
New Ojibwe Immersion Program
This fall, Wisconsin’s Bayfield School District is launching an Ojibwemowin immersion program for kindergarten students in collaboration with the Red Cliff Band of Lake...
Welsh and Irish Unite in Song
On World Translation Day (Monday, September 30, 2024) members of Wales’s largest youth organization, Urdd Gobaith Cymru, and Irish youth project TG Lurgan joined...
Film Aims to Revitalize Mixtec
Two Illinois State University students recently visited the town of San Sebastián del Monte, a small community in southern Mexico, to produce a documentary...
Arizona Opens Center for Linguistic Revitalization
A new center at the University of Arizona is one of only four designated by the US Department of Education to lead a collective...
Celebrate International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
In order to raise awareness of the needs of these population groups, every 9 August commemorates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Arizona Opens Center for Linguistic Revitalization
A new center at the University of Arizona is one of only four designated by the US Department of Education to lead a collective...
Ontario Lawmaker Addresses Legislature in Anishininiimowin
A First Nations lawmaker in Ontario, Canada, has addressed the province’s legislature in Anishininiimowin, in a move that repudiates a centuries-long colonial “war” on...
Name Changes Seen as Plot to Expunge Afrikaans
South Africa’s government is on a name-changing spree—and that’s sparking a fierce language war and fierce feelings.
South Africa was colonized by Dutch settlers...
