Indigenous languages lost, found and shared
All summer long Unreserved will shareour favourite interviews from our community, culture and conversations.
This week:Languages lost, found, and shared.
Skwomesh
You may be familiar with the termSquamish.It's the name of a community in British Columbia and is often used to refer to a nation of people.One of those people isKhelsilem. He is one of two lead instructors of the adult immersion Swxw7mesh language program at Simon Fraser University.
Gwich'in
For many, social media is a place to share funny photos or watch cat videos.But for some language revivers,appsand sites likeYoutube,Facebook, Twitter andInstagramare becoming tools to to foster and share Indigenous languages.
Jacey Firth-Haden is ayoung Yukon woman behind a social media campaign called "Speak Gwich'in To Me." Shestarted the online community to get herpeople speaking theGwich'inlanguage.
Cree
Belindateaches introductory Cree, history and Indigenous studies to high school students in Saskatoon.
But she wasn't always a Cree speaker.Belindadidn't begin to learn her language until she was in university.