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March 31, 2022
Here are a few online resources as Canada marks National Indigenous Languages Day:
- FirstVoices online space for Indigenous communities
- A research guide to UBC Library resources on First Nation Languages in BC
- 2019 BC First Nations Language List from the First Peoples’ Cultural Council (FPCC)
- 2018 paper on Indigenous language diversity from FPCC
- UNESCO’s Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) article
- 2021 APTN interview with Ronald Ignace (Secwepemc), Commissioner of Indigenous Languages
- federal Indigenous Languages Act in force 2019-06-21
- 2016 census information on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples’ languages (StatsCan)
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We acknowledge that the land on which we work is the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.