A key to the success of it I think is that non-Maori are learning the language, meaning there are more people to speak Maori with, more people to practice the language with. I would love to see this happening across Canada, with the many languages that have been spoken here for thousands of years.
and to show Indigenous people they want to act in good relations with us. I often think about the language revitalization efforts in Aotearoa (New Zealand), and how there's been an increase of te reo Maori speakers as a result of language classes offered in schools for Maori and non-Maori students.
I think every elementary school and high school in Canada should offer language classes of the local nations whose territories the schools are on. We need non-Indigenous people learning our languages as well. We need a collective effort by Canadians to learn our languages, to help revitalize them,
needs to include an investment in language revitalization. Our languages aren't dying. I don't like to refer to them as dying languages because it removes the fault of the Canadian government and the policies that rid of us our languages and cultures. Our languages were systematically targeted.
Today being National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, I often think about what our communities would look like and what Canada would look like had Canada not enacted assimilation policies including the banning our languages and cultures. I think if Canada is serious about reconciliation, that #NDTR
After 104 days in a Louisiana immigration detention center, Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil has been released on bail.
Right?! You expect me to believe her and her sister looked in the mirror everyday and saw their moms face every day and never questioned they are carbon copies of her and believed they were birthed by an Inuk woman?!? It just doesn’t add up.
"To practise law in Ontario, applicants for a licence must be of “good character”; Archer feels she has no choice but to abandon a law career, at least at this point." Are we supposed to feel bad? Her and her family committed fraud, taking resources meant for Inuit, First Nations, and Métis students
Amazon’s CEO contributed just 0.4% of his taxable pay to Social Security last year.
Meanwhile, Amazon’s median-paid worker contributed 6.2%.
Amazon's workers paid a 15x higher rate of their taxable income into Social Security than their CEO.
Scrap the cap.
I was at the United Nations in NYC over the last week and was a little shocked to see these for sale in their gift shop. Especially when the featured products from other countries were beautiful and high quality and we have these stereotypical images that were like made in China.
Y’all, I binged it all in one sitting! @netflix.com please do another season! We need more!!
What a terrible day to have eyes and ears
Academic institutions better grow a fucking spine, and yesterday. Because this kind of shit is going to keep happening:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Had the pleasure of helping Maika Harper update her headshots last year. Now you can watch her on North of North on Netflix! #Inuk #Actor #Headshots #NorthOfNorth
It’s wild to me that this thing in Penetang has been up for a couple years and still has no Anishinaabemowin translation but has Michif?!?
So many white French Canadians I grew up with now identify as a Métis as Penetanguishene continues its self indigenization.
A Métis National Council report suggesting the existence of seven Métis communities in Ontario has drawn the ire of three Métis governments and the Chiefs of Ontario.
Métis organizations in B.C., Sask. disagree with panel's findings on Métis communities in Ontario
www.aptnnews.ca?p=260128
I don’t think this is shocking to anyone. It’s really concerning to see attacks on media, especially from the right who want to spew misinformation and don’t want anyone calling them on it.
We're very excited to announce journalists @rachelgilmore.bsky.social and Emily Baron Cadloff are teaming up with National Observer staff for a biweekly election fact-checking segment.
First post coming tomorrow! Follow for updates.
Who belongs in Indigenous academia? Amy Shawanda and Gabriel Maracle explore this question in the newest Yellowhead Institute Special Report, Pretendians and Publications: The Problem and Solutions to Redface Research.
Read the full report on our website -
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
Poilievre insists not being aware of India helping his campaign just practice for not being aware of America helping his campaign
You should never be more afraid of what will happen if you speak out and stand up against injustice & oppresson than you are of what happens if you don't.
Don't let fear shut you down, let it wake you up & spark a fire inside you, maybe under your ass if that works as better motivation to fight.
If the government is allowed to detain a lawful permanent resident like Mahmoud Khalil for his advocacy in support of Palestinian rights, all of our free speech rights are at risk.
Read Mahmoud's message to the country, in his own words.
Someone else told me totem isn’t an Indigenous specific word and I was like it’s literally an Anishinaabemowin word!
I posted in the CAJ Slack asking them about the fact that they legitimized a right-wing rag that has harassed other journalists.
The CAJ did not reply.
Instead, the CAJ deactivated my access to the Slack channel, despite an ongoing conversation with other members.
I'm really disgusted.
Love how natives are labelled as "hating" or angry when we question cultural appropriation. I was curious why this non-native company was called totem compass. Had someone else tell me totem wasn't an Indigenous specific word...
