First Nations working to keep indigenous languages alive among youth (fwd link)

[Richard Zane Smith]

Languages dry up like rain puddles on black top under a hot sun.
Small puddles vanish first, the bigger ones shrinking fast.
The biggest puddles seem enduring - but only by comparison.
What worries me is that so many of our own indigenous speakers
just get busy with life without a care in the world
because back home grandma still speaks the language.

-Richard



On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> *First Nations working to keep indigenous languages alive among youth
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> Created on Tuesday, 06 November 2012 14:43
> Amy MacKenzie
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> PICTOU LANDING – A recent report says that aboriginal languages are dying.
> But Sarah Francis, an elder in Pictou Landing First Nation, said the
> Mi’kmaq language is prevalent there with the most of the seniors and
> middle-aged residents in the area speaking it fluently. She said for many,
> like herself, Mi’kmaq is their first language.
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> But she added she worries that the younger generation isn’t as familiar
> with the language.
>
> “It seems to be (dying) in the younger crowd,” she said. “People middle
> aged and up are OK with it. It’s still their first language.”
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://www.firstperspective.ca/news/2324-first-nations-working-to-keep-indigenous-languages-alive-among-youth




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 *For it hath ever been the use of the conqueror to despise the language of
the conquered and to force him by all means to learn his. - Edmund
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