Reports on the history of the program, development of model evaluation and the 2008 longitudinal evaluation study on the communities of Fort Smith, Hay River, Fort Providence, Bechokò, Yellowknife/Ndilo, Inuvik, Paulatuk and Fort McPherson.
Contemporary Linguistics Analysis: An Introduction
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Author/Creator
Eung-Do Cook
Darin Flynn
Description
Discusses Canada's First Nations nine language families, the separate language family of the Inuit and the mixed language of the Métis.
Chapter nine from Contemporary Linguistics Analysis: An Introduction by William O'Grady, John Archibald.
Study of the origin and meaning of names of bodies of water and some land forms, and changes to them which occurred in Curve Lake First Nation and municipalities of North Kawartha, and Cavendish, Galway-Harvey.
Website contains index of languages, First Nations and brief biographies of community leaders. Includes audio links to key phrases in various languages.
Information on the: Tlingit, Haida, Eyak, Northern Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, Sami, Chukchis, Dolgans, Gilyaks, Kamchadals, Ostyaks, Samoyeds, Ipiutak, and Inuit.
Digitized copy of typescript is part of the unpublished reference work on the Northern Arctic and subarctic regions. Project ran from 1947-1951.
Current Issues in Language Planning, vol. 9, no. 4, 2008, pp. 440-463
Description
Looks at the Traditional Land Use Study and Consultation Unit created to act as an intermediary between industry, the provincial government of Alberta and First Nations to protect language and culture.
Language in Society, vol. 37, no. 2, 2008, pp. 191-215
Description
Comments on the history of the place-names given to newly constructed neighbourhoods on the reservation in relation to locally established social idioms.
Broad cultural overview of the Tlingit peoples including location, history, oral history, language, housing, clothing, healing practices, and social customs. Also includes brief bibliography.