ALI funding amount?

[Heather Souter]

Taanshi, Neskie,

I wrote a little about ALI funding in some earlier posts on ILAT.
Funding for ALI is tiny in comparision to both what French gets and to
what has been committed to redressing individual residential school
claims.  If I can come up with some hard numbers for you, I will send
them along.

Eekoshi pitamaa.
Heather Souter
Michif Language Activist
Camperville, MB
R0L 0J0

On 6/23/08, Neskie Manuel <neskiem at gmail.com> wrote:
> Weytk-p,
>
>  I'm working on a radio piece about language funding in Canada. I"m
>  trying to compare the Aboriginal Language Initiative annual funding to
>  Residential School Funding to see where it stands.  I'm thinking that
>  the ALI's funding is much lower.  If anyone has any numbers to compare
>  this would be great.
>
>  I think the ALI's funding for language projects is 5 million dollars.
>  I don't know if that's also their operating budget as well, then there
>  would be even less for projects.  My big questions is are the
>  resources that Canada put towards taking away our native languages
>  being put back into revitalizing languages?  If not, then what does
>  the Residential School Apology mean?
>
>  I'm specifically asking about Canada, but comments from the US are
>  welcome,  I know people in the states are facing the English Only
>  movement down south.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Kukstsemc,
>
> -Neskie
>