Language Advocacy
Days 2024
Photo Gallery
OUR LANGUAGE RIGHTS
LANGUAGE KEEPERS
Celebrating Newcomer and Indigenous Language Revitalization and Preservation
February 21, 2024
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Proudly sponsored by
LANGUAGE KEEPERS
 SARAH ONYANGOThe producer and host of the Fontonfrom (Rogers), the Ici l'Afrique, Afrika Revisited and Black on Black (CHUO 89.1FM), translator |  THEA HARRISLanguage Program Manager at First People’s Cultural Centre, member of Snuneymuxw First Nation on Vancouver Island, B.C. |  DR. ELAINE GOLDThe Executive Director of The Canadian Language Museum |  REBEKAH R. INGRAM, PhDProfessor and researcher, The School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University |  LAILA JOUDCommunications Manager with Refugee 613 and social justice activist |
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Proudly featuring:
SPEAKING THE INUIT WAY
exhibit will introduce viewers to the diversity of the Inuit language. It presents Inuit writing systems, dialect differences, and modern revitalization efforts, and illustrates how the language reflects both historical and contemporary Inuit culture and identity.
ABOUT THE VENUE
Native Women Association of Canada (NWAC) is a National Indigenous Organization representing the political voice of Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit,transgender and gender-diverse people in Canada, inclusive of First Nations on and off reserve, status and non-status, disenfranchised, Métis and Inuit. We were founded on the collective goal to enhance, promote and foster the social, economic, cultural and political well-being of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people within their respective communities and Canadian societies.
