Sentences with phrase «for indigenous languages»

Language nests require complementary policy in the areas of early childhood services, employment services for Indigenous language speakers, training for elders and community members if required, and possibly infrastructure development resourcing.

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Métis author Chelsea Vowel argues for the official protection of Canada's Indigenous languages, which are currently on the brink of extinction

There was the Superior Court judge in Ontario who ruled that Ottawa had «failed in their duty of care to indigenous peoples» in one case pertaining to the Sixties Scoop which hardly seems sufficient language for the intergenerational pain that was inflicted but I'm glad for it.

Ricoeur there proposes a philosophical analysis of symbolic and metaphoric language intended to help us reach a «second naivete» before such texts.17 The latter phrase, which Ricoeur has made famous, suggests that the «first naivete,» an unquestioned dwelling in a world of symbol, which presumably came naturally to men and women in one - possibility cultures to which the symbols in question were indigenous, is no longer possible for us.

It is very puzzling for the historian that the Nestorian missionaries who were eager to create alphabets for Central Asian people and who helped the growth of indigenous theology among the Chinese Christians did not encourage translation of the Bible into Arabic or the Syriac liturgy into the language of the people in India.

The RUNA name translates to «fully alive» in the language of the Ecuadorian Amazon, whose indigenous peoples have consumed guayusa for thousands of years.

Named for its Oatmeal line, the food manufacturer teamed up with Achik --(which means «Realizing Dreams» in Guatemala's indigenous kaquchikel language) to organize a soccer tournament for 16 prestigious educational centers.

Translating to «The People's Seeds» in the Quechua language, Sacha Inchi has been used by indigenous tribes dating back to the Incas for its health giving properties.

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: Enock Akonnor Teachers are being encouraged to use indigenous languages to help students Chief for Atwima Kwanwoma Nana Amponsa - Kwaa IV has appealed to the government through the Ministry of Education to consider setting in motion policies that will ensure that Akan language (Twi) is strictly used by teachers as the communication channel in the teaching of students in the country.

«This paper makes the case that endangered Indigenous languages can be repositories for factual knowledge across time depths far greater than previously imagined,» the researchers wrote in their paper, «forcing a rethink of the ways in which such traditions have been dismissed.»

This helps keep the indigenous signed language alive for the village as a whole.

Local languages are disappearing, too: The report calls for redoubled efforts to document and study indigenous cultures now, as groups that have depended on the frozen Arctic from Alaska to Scandinavia are adapting to a warmer climate or leaving altogether.

Baker has found that an overwhelming 94 percent of the recovered remains belong to indigenous people for whom Spanish is a second language.

Her advice: For students interested in indigenous languages, opportunities and funding abound.

The data comparing dozens of indigenous languages support phases of migration for the Dene languages and multilingual language contact systems along the Alaska coast, which potentially involved languages related to current linguistic isolates.

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.

After earning an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film for Embrace of the Serpent, director Ciro Guerra returned to the Director's Fortnight with this story of an indigenous Wayuu family caught up in the Colombian drug trade.

Kaitlin's film interests are largely centered in film language and how film language can be used as a bridge for Indigenous communities that have been denied their languages through colonization.

He currently serves as the Cultural Coordinator for the Indigenous Masters of Education program at the University of Calgary, and is producing his directorial debut Kills Last — a post-apocalyptic thriller based on traditional tribal coup stories and told primarily in the Blackfeet language.

Support for teachers: It may not be realistic for every teacher to meet Indigenous students» needs relating to language, culture and identity, but there is much that can be done to help teachers to feel confident and competent in establishing positive relationships with their Indigenous students.

The animated nature of the series allows for re-voicing in Indigenous languages.

Many of the resources were produced during the era of bilingual education in the Northern Territory, beginning in the 1970s, and were mostly created by Indigenous people for Indigenous children who spoke an Indigenous language at home, and were learning to read and write in their own language before transitioning to English literacy.

From the Land, Of the Land: An Interdisciplinary Lesson on Indigenous Peoples Energize a geography or language arts lesson with this online activity for grades 7 - 12.

In this blog post, Erin Haynes says the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) promises unprecedented opportunities and funding for incorporating our nation's many indigenous cultures and languages into public schools if implemented properly.

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.

Theodore Fontaine recalls being punished as a student at Fort Alexander Residential School for speaking the indigenous language Ojibway.

Indian agents would take children from their homes as young as two or three and send them to church - run boarding schools where they were punished for speaking their native languages or observing any indigenous traditions, routinely sexually and physically assaulted, and in some extreme instances subjected to medical experimentation and sterilization.

«Indigenous studies, languages, innovations and leadership are all strengths of the NACA community, and similarly CNM's vision for innovation and its core values of service and community will provide our students and families with unbound opportunities and serve as a national model for collaboration and success.»

The app was designed to enable users to measure the listening and speaking skills of young learners, recognising the significance of the oral tradition in Indigenous cultures, and oral language as the foundation for the development of literacy skills and a strong indicator of later reading, writing and overall academic achievement.

Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, fluent in Ketanu's indigenous language, is the right man for the job, but he hates the idea of leaving his loving wife and young son, a plucky kid with a defective heart.

For example, due to the variety of indigenous languages in India, the public sector comes up with a project called Aakash to provide up to 220 million tablets to students.

Mexico has something for everyone: beaches, colonial towns, indigenous villages, handicrafts, pre-Hispanic archeological sites (think Maya, Aztec, Zapotec among others), food, and of course the Spanish language.

For an entry fee, visitors are given a 68 - page guide book and audio guide in eight different languages, including an Indigenous cultural viewpoint, and access to five different walking tours including the aerial walkway; a canopy tower; cassowary circuit; bush tucker circuit; and Jurassic forest walk.

Taíno is the indigenous culture and language of Caribbean islands like Hispaniola that the colonists first made landfall on, making it an appropriate root for the term.

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)

That huge displacement meant rapid modernisation for the community, and today, barely any Oroqen under 40 are fluent in their indigenous language.

A graduate of OCAD University's Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design in 2015, Philip creates opportunities for teaching methodologies on Indigenous symbolism, language, knowledge, and history.

The interruption of intergenerational language - learning, as a result of the residential school system and other colonial attempts to remove Indigenous culture, has created serious barriers for access to language for subsequent generations.

Near the northern Brazilian outpost of São Luís, I went to see a tidal bore known as the pororoca, from the word for «destructive noise» in the indigenous Tupi language.

He wrote, and Dr. Michaels edited, a March 28th entry on Dr. Michaels» climate site providing evidence that several indigenous Arctic cultures had a word for robins in their languages, and that the birds had been seen early in the 20th century around northern Alaska.

Barcelona - The potential of REDD to deliver real reductions in emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and to protect the rights of indigenous peoples in their forest homes hangs in the balance as language protecting forests remains missing from negotiating text for a climate change agreement.

That's the word from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance, which says several key safeguards, as well as explicit language protecting intact forests, are missing: According to ECA, safeguards for transparent forest government structures, for the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, for conservation of biodiversity all have not been finalized — considering that many of the countries which will benefit from REDD have weak governance to start with, ECA describes these as «gaping holes» that need to be closed.

After seven hours of discussion over five months, the ideas proffered for improving access to justice were (1) more money for legal aid (to be extracted somehow from the most indebted sub-national government in the world), (2) more e-filing, (3) more pamphlets in more languages, (4) re-purposing the Shirley Dennison fund to laud someone who does something beneficial wrt A2J, and (5) encouraging indigenous peoples to use circles of healing instead of the court system.

The Indigenous peoples living in these places already had names for these places in their own languages, but these names were rarely recorded by explorers and settlers, and almost never used as the official name.

National Chief Bellegarde's candidacy for National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations was based on a vision that includes establishing processes for self - determination; recognition of inherent Aboriginal and Treaty rights; the revitalization and retention of indigenous languages; and establishing a new relationship with the Crown — one that removes the long - standing 2 % cap on federal funding.

It is not merely an accident of language that the appalling infant mortality and peri-natal morbidity rates for Indigenous infants results in vastly disproportionate «hospital separations» today, and that the juvenile justice systems of Australia continue to separate Indigenous children from their families at rates well beyond those for other Australian children.

For my last report I have chosen to focus on justice reinvestment to reduce Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system; the protection of Indigenous languages; and sustaining Aboriginal homeland communities.

For the Indigenous peoples whose languages are affected, the loss has wide ranging impacts on culture, identity and health.

Indigenous peoples have been struggling for many years to sustain our culture, despite a history of policies designed to eradicate or assimilate our languages, our belief systems and our ways of living.

While there is a tendency across the country for Indigenous groups to describe themselves as nations defined by language, descent and territory, land and native title claims have often split groups that naturally belong together.