by Madison Fernway | Apr 5, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
March 28, 2024 | Toronto Star via UVic News Onowa McIvor, an Indigenous Education professor at the University of Victoria, emphasizes in a Toronto Star op-ed, the shared duty in reviving Indigenous languages, a key part of Canada’s history. Despite decades-long...
by Nevada Alde | Feb 17, 2021 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
Feb. 16, 2021|Toronto Star via UVic News After two decades of hiding his ancestral tongue, Levi Martin was reintroduced to Tla-o-qui-aht and is one of the estimated 10 percent to speak it fluently. And as one of the many children sent to Residential Schools, he...
by Danice Szabo | Sep 11, 2019 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
August 9, 2019 | UVic News ‘…a new Google project is highlighting an initiative led by UVic anthropologist Brian Thom and Indigenous languages teacher yutustanaat Mandy Jones (Snuneymuxw First Nation). The “Celebrating Indigenous languages” Google Earth Voyager...