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Rebekah R. Ingram; Ryan T. Ransom; Kahente Horn-Miller – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024
The Atlas of Kanyen'kehá:ka Space project (Kanyen'kehá:ka Nation, 2020; see www.mohawkatlas.org) launched in 2019 for the purposes of preserving Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk language) place names and related landscape terminology. Built using Nunaliit, a community mapping framework developed by Carleton University's Geomatics and Cartographic Research…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Eskimo Aleut Languages, American Indian Languages, Atlases
Melissa Bishop – OTESSA Journal, 2022
In First Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) communities, Elders are highly regarded as intergenerational transmitters of ancestral language and Indigenous knowledge. Without language revival initiatives, ancestral languages in FNMI communities are at risk of extinction. Leveraging digital technologies while collaborating with Elders can support…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, American Indians, American Indian Languages, Eskimos
Tulloch, Shelley; Kusugak, Adriana; Chenier, Cayla; Pilakapsi, Quluaq; Uluqsi, Gloria; Walton, Fiona – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2017
The Miqqut project was a participatory action research project through which Inuit language and literacy learning was embedded in a traditional skills program. Community-based researchers tracked learners' progress through entrance, exit, and post-program interviews and questionnaires, as well as through participant observation. Results show that…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Transformative Learning, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Self Concept
Angelo, Denise; Disbray, Samantha; Singer, Ruth; O'Shannessy, Carmel; Simpson, Jane; Smith, Hilary; Meek, Barbra; Wigglesworth, Gillian – OECD Publishing, 2022
Indigenous peoples have rightful aspirations for their languages and cultures, supported under international conventions, jurisdictional treaties, laws, policies and enquiry recommendations. Additionally, the inclusion of Indigenous languages in education can impact positively on Indigenous students' learning, engagement, identity and well-being,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Academic Achievement, Educational Experience, Outcomes of Education
Sarkar, Mela; Metallic, Mali A'n – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2009
Mi'gmaq, an Algonkian language of northeastern North America, is one of nearly 50 surviving Indigenous languages in Canada that are usually not considered to be viable into the next century. Only Inuktitut, Cree, and Ojibwe presently have enough younger speakers to provide a critical mass for long-term survival. In one Mi'gmaq community, however,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Indigenous Populations
Allen, Shanley – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
Inuktitut, the Eskimo language spoken in Eastern Canada, is one of the few Canadian indigenous languages with a strong chance of long-term survival because over 90% of Inuit children still learn Inuktitut from birth. In this paper I review existing literature on bilingual Inuit children to explore the prospects for the survival of Inuktitut given…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Eskimos, Foreign Countries, Eskimo Aleut Languages
Travis, Michael – 1979
Early Russian religious and educational influences on the 20 various Alaskan Native languages are described, followed by those of American origin in schools and religious groups after the American purchase in 1867, all of which show the development of diglossia and language shifts. The present dual educational system, which includes state schools…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education
Ostler, Nicholas, Ed. – 1998
The papers included here examine issues related to the role outside specialists, such as linguists, educators, or media professionals, can play in the preservation of endangered languages. Language communities must continue to use their mother tongues if the languages are to survive, and this has led to questions about whether outside…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Maintenance