Indspire Guiding the Journey Award Recipient: Janice Vicaire.
My siblings and I were taught to expand our minds through knowledge and to always take advantage of educating ourselves. The benefits of education were often praised in my family because my mother,...
View ArticleMy Vision for Listuguj
I am sure everyone knows that there is a strong importance of “preserving our language”—a phrase has been thrown around so much lately that it’s starting to lose its true meaning. I have wondered if...
View ArticleListuguj Visit
Hi! I’m writing to introduce myself. My name is Carolyn Anderson, and I’m a visiting student at McGill this semester. While I’m here, I’m hoping to work on some Mi’gmaq materials, as well as starting...
View ArticleRecounting Hawai’i Part 1: Culturally-situated language research
As we are flying over the beautiful mountains of B.C., I realize that my week-long Hawai’ian journey comes to a close. Despite this, I am certain this is only the beginning of my own venture into...
View ArticleRecounting Hawai’i Part 2: Culturally-situated language revitalization in action
In my previous blog post, I talked about the idea of culturally-situated language research, as presented by keynote speaker Lenore Grenoble. For the minute, allow me to skip the many other interesting...
View Article[Untilted] by Carol Dana
Pensive in her rocking chair stiff and straight faced. The hard line of her mouth I would wait to see crack To know what was inside. Sometimes I felt I should hide from her sternness and harsh ways,...
View ArticleRecounting Hawai’i Part 3: Culturally-Situated Language Assessment
Three months later, I am still thinking about the talks at ICLDC. I thought I could close out my series of blog posts with a mention of a great talk by Melody Ann Ross (Fulbright-Clinton Public...
View ArticleBilingual Mi’gmaq-English Podcast
The first episode of “Pjila’si Mi’kma’ki” [Welcome to Mi’kma’ki], a bilingual Mi’gmaq-English podcast, debuted May 22, 2015. The podcast discusses issues relevant to Mi’gmaq people in the 21st century...
View ArticleMaddie and Carol-Rose featured on the Canadian Language Museum Blog
Maddie and Carol-Rose speak of their experiences with Mi’gmaq retention efforts. For the full post click here.
View ArticleWelcome!
Welcome to the blog! This blog was regularly updated during a collaborative project between 2012–2016. You can still learn more about the project and visit other resources at http://migmaq.org/
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