LU honours 'keeper of the language' (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

LU honours 'keeper of the language'

Jun 28, 2012- 1:30 PM
By: Sudbury Northern Life Staff
CANADA

Laurentian University presented Leona Nahwegahbow with the Native Education
Person of Distinction Award on June 21, which is National Aboriginal Day.

Nahwegahbow is an advocate for indigenous language training and a former
chair of the Laurentian University Native Education Council.

She is also the former Chief of Whitefish River First Nation, and currently
serves on the band council with responsibility for Language and Elders.

She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Northern Ontario
School of Medicine, has been elder-in-residence at Kenjgewin Teg
Educational Institute at M’Chigeeng on Manitoulin Island, and has also
worked with the Shawanosowe School, an Aboriginal elementary school at
Whitefish River First Nation.

She currently participates in the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation’s
“Story-telling in the Language” Program, and teaches a class as a “keeper
of the language.”

Access full article below:
http://www.northernlife.ca/news/localNews/2012/06/28-laurentian-native-award-sudbury.aspx
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