Heritage Website Gets Boost

[Lori Crouch]

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     Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:32:56 -0600
     From: Simon Ortiz <s.ortiz at utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: Simon Ortiz <s.ortiz at utoronto.ca>
  Subject: Fw: [ien] Fwd: [aboriginaljournalists] globe and mail article
       To: sheilahn at email.arizona.edu

Sheilah,

Good news about Indigenous languages.  Pass this on.  Who should be getting
this sort of thing now that you're not doing AILDI anymore?

Simon

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 > >Heritage Web site gets boost
 > >
 > >Globe and Mail--September 8
 > >
 > >Canadian Press
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > >Victoria - First Voices, a First Nations Internet-based archive recording
 > >the province's rapidly disappearing aboriginal languages, was given a
near
 > >million-dollar boost Monday by Heritage Minister Sheila Copps.
 > >
 > >The First Peoples' Cultural Foundation will receive $774,000 during this
 > >fiscal year.
 > >
 > >With that money, the foundation will archive 200 proper nouns and 2,000
 > >conversational phrases for up to 15 aboriginal language groups, including
 > >the Sencoten of Saanich. Only about 30 elders are left who speak the
 > >language.
 > >
 > >"If you want to create a strong world, you have to have diversity in all
of
 > >its aspects," Ms. Copps said. "If we don't manage to save these languages
 > >they are going to be extinct within one generation."
 > >
 > >There are more than 6,000 aboriginal languages around the world. More
than
 > >half are endangered.
 > >
 > >About one language is lost every two weeks globally, according to Simon
 > >Robinson, executive director of the cultural foundation.
 > >
 > >In Canada alone, there are more than 50 indigenous languages, of which 32
 > >are in B.C. There is an urgent need to document those languages while
enough
 > >fluent speaking elders are still alive, Mr. Robinson said.
 > >
 > >Those native languages embody the deep history of First Nations people,
 > >their stories and connection to the land.
 > >
 > >"What is it to be human and not understand how we relate to the Earth,"
he
 > >said.
 > >
 > >Ms. Copps said she hopes staying connected to their heritage will instill
in
 > >children a sense of pride and self-esteem.
 > >
 > >The first language families to be archived include the Haida, Tsimshian,
 > >Wakashan, Coast Salish, Interior Salish and Ktunaxa. Within those
categories
 > >are languages such as Nisga'a and Gitxsan, which is under the Tsimshian
 > >family.
 > >
 > >First Voices is an on-line resource, the brainchild of Peter Brand and
John
 > >Elliott, that will archive the language database using text, sound,
images
 > >and video.
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