Sentences with phrase «indigenous language families»

There are around a dozen indigenous language families in Canada, and more than 50 different languages within these families.

Not exact matches

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.

His family spoke Marma, one of eight different indigenous languages used by Hill Tract tribes.

In addition to the points already covered, other techniques may include: under talking instead of over talking (that is, explaining concepts in «bite - sized chunks» using simple language, rather than elaborating on the concept in an attempt to explain it), scaffolding learning content, and building mutually respectful, trusting relationships with Indigenous students and their families.

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.

«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.»

Emphasizing the discontinuation of the language within Arcand's own family by rendering it hyper - visible in location and material, the work further questions how the public presence of language is connected to acknowledging Indigenous peoples.

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.

Flexibility of the national representative body's structures and processes is important in order to reflect and represent the full diversity of Indigenous cultures and situations in Australia, whether at family, clan, community, language group or national level.

The practice of removing children from their families and enforcing assimilation meant that even when stolen children became adults, some were unable to communicate with their families because they did not speak the Indigenous languages spoken by their parents.

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.

The intergenerational transmission of Australian Indigenous languages: why language maintenance programmes should be family - focused.

Many of these communities are often highly heterogeneous, comprising several Indigenous families, clans or language groups with few traditional ties, whose genesis stemmed from successive government policies over many decades which led to many Indigenous groups moving from their traditional lands.

In particular, new funding and programs have been introduced for organisations such as Link - Up; mental health counselling; family reunion services; parenting support programs; programs to preserve Indigenous languages and culture; oral history recordings; and for the archiving of records.