GOVERNMENT OF CANADA SUPPORTS TALKING WITH TECHNOLOGY PROJECT (fwd link)

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GOVERNMENT OF CANADA SUPPORTS TALKING WITH TECHNOLOGY PROJECT	 	
 	
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Canada

On behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage
and Official Languages, the Honourable John Duncan, Minister of Indian
Affairs and Northern Development, Federal Interlocutor for Métis and
Non-Status Indians, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic
Development Agency, and Member of Parliament (Vancouver Island North),
today announced funding for the U'mista Cultural Society (UCS) for
their project Talking with Technology.

The funding will allow the UCS to create new learning materials in the
Kwak'wala language, which will include the production of audio and
video recordings of speakers talking about traditional and cultural
aspects of fishing, food preparation, plants and animals, singing, and
dancing. These recordings will be transcribed in the Kwak'wala
orthography, and 12 new language lesson plans will be prepared. These
resources will be made available to community members, schools, and
community language classes through the UCS website.

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