Multilingual week
Commissioner of Indigenous Languages discusses importance of language preservation
Peak Web March 13, 2024By: Olivia Sherman, News Writer Content warning: mentions of residential schools and anti-Indigenous racism. After Canada’s implementation of the Indigenous Languages Act in 2019, aiming to support the reawakening of Indigenous languages in Canada, the Office Commission for Indigenous Languages was founded. The first Commissioner of this independent organization, former Stsmél̓qen ((Skeetchestn) Chief, Dr. Ronald E. Ignace, gave a keynote address at SFU to discuss the importance of this initiative. His lecture started off SFU Multilingual 2024, a yearly week-long festival to uplift and celebrate diversity and language. “Canada has a history now known to the world as cultural genocide,”…
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