First Nations youth bring vitality to languages: Regional Health Survey (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

June 19, 2012 5:05 PM

First Nations youth bring vitality to languages: Regional Health Survey

OTTAWA, June 19, 2012 /CNW/ - According to the CBC, "Statistics Canada says
only three aboriginal languages in Canada — Cree, Ojibwa and Inuktitut —
remain viable." That may be so, but apparently not if First Nations youth
on-reserves and in northern communities right across Canada have anything
to say about it.

According to the latest national report of the First Nations Regional
Health Survey (RHS), 86% of youth (12 to 17 years old) living in nearly
every First Nation and northern community felt that learning their own
Indigenous language was "very important" or "somewhat important."

In fact, more than half (56.3%) of First Nations youth across Canada
reported speaking or understanding their own languages.

Access full article below:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/995935/first-nations-youth-bring-vitality-to-languages-regional-health-survey
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