LU language program celebrates 25 years (fwd link)

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LU language program celebrates 25 years

by: Rick Garrick - Wawatay News
Canada

Helen Roy’s Anishinabemowin pop songs were a hit at Lakehead University’s 25th
anniversary of the Native Language Instructors Program.

July 23, 2009: Volume 36 #15, Page B8

“It feels very good to be here today,” said the 1985 NLIP graduate and Michigan
State University Anishinabemowin teacher whose love of the language encouraged
her to sing and record pop songs in Anishinabemowin. “When I started teaching –
in Michigan there are a lot of Aboriginal people, but very little language – it
woke me up and really inspired me.”

Roy, who has put out five Anishinabemowin-language CDs with songs such as Hey
Good Lookin’, Amazing Grace, Splish Splash and Yesterday since 2006, celebrated
the NLIP anniversary July 10 along with more than 100 former graduates, current
students and long-time instructors during a series of workshops and
presentations at Lakehead University and a dinner banquet at the Port Arthur
Provista Ukrainian Cultural Centre.

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