Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sure. Unfortunately, I don't know the languages act, or haven't had a chance to go through it, but I totally agree with the previous speaker. The settlers' language is very deceiving sometimes, when you use words like “may” or “should”, because in our indigenous languages, you

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What was the question again? I kind of forgot. I'm sorry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, for sure. First and foremost, I think we need to strike up a board of people who are really concerned about the preservation of our language and get those people talking. This way we can start to produce something more in an immersion form on exactly how to go about preservi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sure. I've been in discussion with a few of my siblings, who have all been involved in curriculum development or teaching throughout the years. We've always talked about this. What is needed here is a board of speakers to help us create more curricula, as well as ideas about what

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Woliwon. Thank you very much. Yes, I truly believe it is very crucial for all indigenous languages to be official. Back home in New Brunswick, we even struggle to reclaim the original names of our rivers. The river that flows through our homeland is called St. John. I've never m

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I'd have to agree. In fact, a sad event in the last four months, just in my community of Neqotkuk, is that we've lost six speakers within that very short period of time. As the months and years go by, we are going to lose more and more of our fluent speakers and the knowledg

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, just being here at the mite ceremony, I had a chance to listen to some speakers yesterday talking about languages. A huge concern was about the time spent by our young people on mobile devices, be it phones or computers. They said, you know, if you want to learn a language,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  This whole process of getting the Kehkimin School ready last September was a huge chore because a lot of the people who were part of the development of the school have not taught in that setting before. There was a lack of readiness and a lack of education in teaching teachers ho

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Wolastoqey] [English] Greetings. My traditional name is Morning Star Burning, and I represent, through my mother's side, the Crow Clan and, from my father's side, the Wolf Clan. I am from the homeland we call the Wolastoqey. We are the people of the beautiful