8.0 Institutional Support for Indigenous Languages

In recent decades, a number of institutional efforts have been launched to support communities and individual community members to revitalize Indigenous languages. These efforts have ranged from recruiting and training academics to work with communities and document Indigenous languages to training Indigenous language teachers and developing language teaching and learning materials.

Abele, Frances, Carolyn Dittburner, and Katherine A. Graham (2000) Towards a Shared Understanding in the Policy Discussion about Aborigional Education. In Aborigional Education: Fulfilling the Promise. M. Brant Castellano, L. Davis, and L. Lahache, eds. Pp. 3-24. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Fettes, Mark, and Ruth Norton (2000) Voices of Winter: Aborigional Languages and Public Policy in Canada. In Aborigional Education: Fulfilling the Promise. M. Brant Castellano, L. Davis, and L. Lahache, eds. Pp. 29-54. Vancouver: UBC Press.

University of Victoria Aboriginal Language Revitalization Program, (Victoria, BC)
https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/aspnet/Program/Detail/?code=CALR

University of Alberta - Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (Edmonton, AB)
http://www.aboriginal.ualberta.ca/en/OurCommunity/CanadianIndigenousLanguagesandLiteracyDevelopmentInstitute.aspx

University of Alaska Fairbanks - Alaska Native Language Center/Language Revitalization Programs and Degrees, (Fairbanks, AK)
https://www.uaf.edu/anlc/

Yukon College Native Language Instructor Program, (Whitehorse, YT)
https://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/programs/info/native_language_instructor

The Yukon Native Language Center: (Whitehorse, YT)
http://www.ynlc.ca/index.html

Aurora College Aboriginal Language and Culture Instructor Program (Various locations, NWT)
http://www.auroracollege.nt.ca/_live/pages/wppages/ProgramInfoDisplay.aspx?id=38&tp=PRG

Nunavut Arctic College Language and Culture Programs (Various locations, NU)
http://www.arcticcollege.ca/inuit-language-culture

http://www.arcticcollege.ca/language-culture/item/6111-kitikmeot-aboriginal-language-revitalization

2015 Truth and Reconciliation of Canada: Calls to Action
http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/File/2015/Findings/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf

Nunavut Culture and Heritage:
http://www.cley.gov.nu.ca/index.html

Yukon Education - First Nations Programs and Partnerships Unit:
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/firstnations/

First People’s Cultural Council
http://www.fpcc.ca/

UBC Kaska Language website:
http://kaska.arts.ubc.ca/

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