Sentences with phrase «about indigenous languages»

As well, a Winnipeg member of parliament offers a dire warning about Indigenous languages.

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The only linguistic data available for Carabayo, a language spoken by an indigenous group that lives in voluntary isolation, is a set of about 50 words.

Of the 175 estimated indigenous languages that are still spoken in the United States, about 155 of them, or 89 percent, are near extinction, estimates James Crawford, author of Bilingual Education: History, Politics, Theory, and Practice (Bilingual Educational Services, 1999).

«Among both Year 6 and Year 10 students, about nine out of ten students endorsed the notion that Australia should support the cultural traditions and languages of Indigenous Australians (about 95 per cent in Year 6 and 94 per cent in Year 10),» the report reveals.

The Living Archive allows teachers and students around Australia to easily access a vast range of literature, art, culture and language, leading them to think about different ways to consider Indigenous knowledge in their own contexts.

The researchers found that six key policies had been implemented by all five states: adopting academic standards for teaching students about the history and culture of America's indigenous peoples, involving Native Americans on advisory boards, promoting Native American languages through teacher certification, allowing students to learn their native language as part of their education program, and providing tuition assistance for college - bound Native American students.

This new resource brings educators primary sources and first - person accounts about a painful period in Canadian history, when about 150,000 Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their families and stripped of their language, culture, and traditions.

However, more information is needed about how federal policies support indigenous language and culture in education, what CBE programs are currently in use, and how to evaluate and scale up the most effective strategies.

An engaging chronicle of the indigenous people of northwestern Spain and southwestern France, who speak a unique language, who «discovered» America before other Europeans, who care more about being a nation than being a state, and who cook like no other people in Western Europe.

COMMUNITY BASED & COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL JUSTICE WORK WITH ONAMAN COLLECTIVE Youth Art Mural Project: John F. Ross Secondary School, Guelph, ON (May 2016) Anishinaabemowin Wiigwaam: Ojibway Immersion Language House (Mar & Oct 2015, Mar 2016) Words from the Land: Youth & Elders art retreat (Mar 2016) Youth Run for the Language (Oct 2015) The Painted Hand: Gathering to Feast Our Historic Alliances (Sept 2015) Reconciliation, Resurgence & Storytelling with Maria Campbell (Aug 2015) Canoe Building with Youth: Chippewas of the Thames (July / Aug 2015) Harvesting ochre & making paint (June 2015) Research with Elders on traditional knowledge and the language in Ontario & Saskatchewan (June & Aug 2015) Moosehide Tanning (April 2015) The Sacred Fisher Story: The Youth Mural Project (April 2015) Anishinaabemowin Wiigwaam: Ojibway Immersion Language House (Mar 2015) Onaman Kendaagozid: Gathering about Sacred Paint (Feb 2015) Research into traditional Indigenous tattoos and face / body ochre paint (on - going) Collaborative creation of art pieces by Isaac Murdoch and Christi Belcourt (on - going)

«If we're starting to talk about culture and identity and lack of communication between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people — often culture and language will be at the root of any conflict around the world.

We aim to prompt reflection about how legal challenges in the aftermath of abuse can vary based not only on age and gender, but also based on ability, citizenship status, Indigenous identity, language, access to financial resources, and more.

With few exceptions, the debates about Indigenous education focus on whether it is better to educate Indigenous children in their own communities or whether it is better to remove Indigenous children to boarding schools where they can access western style education and be saturated in the English language.

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English continues to be the language of transaction in health services, in education, in negotiations about infrastructure development and industry development on Indigenous peoples» land.

The conference heard that the primary goal of colonisation was about «killing the spirit of Indigenous peoples» — as evidenced through the theft of land, language and culture.

Indigenous perspectives aim to give students the opportunity to learn about the history, culture, language and social context of Indigenous Australians through maths, science, English and history.

AUSTLANG, the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, assembles information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages from various sources.

Singing songs in First Nations languages, learning to tackle racism and blogging about the use of Indigenous practices in the classroom were among the host of reconciliation actions celebrated at the awards ceremony at the University of Canberra.

Indigenous communities experience multiple barriers when trying to access the Court including literacy and language barriers, a lack of understanding about the family law system and a lack of service access for communities in regional and remote areas.

There are concerns about the ability of schools to reinforce Indigenous languages and culture because the numbers of trained Indigenous teachers is declining.