8:30 am         Light breakfast

9:00 am        INUIT LANGUAGE POLICY  

• • • Keynote plenary address

President Aluki KOTIERK – Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated

“The Threatened State of Inuktut in Nunavut Today: What is needed to help it flourish?

Question and Answer Period – Moderator:  Ian MARTIN

10:30 am  – 10:45 am    Coffee / Health break

• • • Shirley TAGALIK (a), Joe KARETAK (b) –Former director (a) and Current Team Lead (b), Culture and Heritage, Curriculum and School Services, Arviat, NU. [by zoom]

“The Arviat C&SS language and IQ curriculum model: Origins, Failure and the Future”

• • • Derek RASMUSSEN – Former Policy Advisor to Inuit organizations and doctoral candidate, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University

“Indigenous Languages Don’t Just ‘Decline’, Canada Tries to Kill Them: The Remarkable Case of Inuktitut Resilience on the Face of Government Suppression of Rights and Services in Nunavut”

• • • Question and Answer Period – Moderator: Ian MARTIN

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12:15 pm – 12:45 pm   Lunch break – Buy or bring your own lunch in Glendon cafeteria

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FIRST NATIONS LANGUAGE POLICY

• • • Luncheon address (Glendon Hall – Manor)

Roger JONES – Legal Advisor, Assembly of First Nations

 

1:30 pm            PANEL #1:  BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALBERTA INITIATIVES

Moderator:  Mark TURIN – First Nations and Endangered Languages Program, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and Department of Anthropology, U. of British Columbia

• • • Suzanne GESSNER – FPCC / First Peoples Cultural Council [by zoom]

“Indigenous Language Legislation: the Path Ahead”

• • • Mark FETTES – Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University [by zoom]

“Language Resurgence through Formal Schooling: Three Examples from Coast Salish Territory”

• • • Candace KALEIMAMOOWAHINEKAPU GALLA (Kanaka Maoli) – Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia [by zoom]

“The Promise and Potential of Digital Technology to Support Indigenous Language Revitalization”

• • • Heather BLAIR – Canadian Indigenous Language and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI) and Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton. [by zoom]

“The Emergence of CILLDI in the Absence of a Policy: Alignment with the Indigenous Languages Act”

• • • Discussion / Question and Answer Period 

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3:20 pm – 3:40 pm        Coffee  / Health break

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     PANEL #2: NOVA SCOTIA UNIVERSITY-MI’KMAW COMMUNITY
     PARTNERSHIP

Members of the Faculty of Education, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS.

• • • Joanne TOMPKINS – Faculty of Education, St. Francis Xavier University

“The Decolonizing Mandate of the University Partner”

• • • Blaire GOULD – Citizen of the Mi’kmaq Nation, District of Unama’ki. Proud L’nu’skw and speaker. Director of Programs and Services, Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey

“Our ‘Language Foundation Document’ for Mi’kmaw Language”

• • • Lisa LUNNEY BORDEN – Mathematics Education, Holder of the John Jerome Paul Chair for Equity in Mathematics Education, Education, St. Francis Xavier University

“Decolonizing Mathematics Education”

• • • Jeff ORR – Dean, Education, St. Francis Xavier University

“Research with Mi’kmaq Communities”

Moderator:  Joanne TOMPKINS                  

5:30 pm       

• • • Round table

“What Role for C-91 in First Nations Language Policy?” 

                     Moderators:  Ian MARTIN and Amos KEY Jr.

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6:30 pm         Buffet dinner 

8:30 am         Light breakfast served

9:00 am         Parallel sessions

• • • PS 1    Mary Jane NORRIS – Algonquin Nation, Member of Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation, Independent Researcher

“An Interactive Demographic Website on Indigenous Languages and their Communities, and its Potential Role in Shaping Language Policy and Planning” : an online demonstration of the website.

• • • PS 2    Marsha and Max IRELAND – Oneida Sign Language Project – with Kristin SNODDON – Ryerson University

“The Oneida Sign Language Project”

• • • PS 3    Sean MEADES – Algoma University

“Language Policy and the Political Economy of Language Shift in Baawating”

• • • PS 4    Adam RICHARD – Western University

“An online dictionary portal, using Mohawk as a model, but which can be adapted by any Indigenous group at no cost: searching for funding and partners”

• • • PS 5    FIRST NATIONS, METIS and INUIT EDUCATION ORGANIZATION of ONTARIO (FNMIEAO)

Presentation

 

10:00 am     

• • • David G. LEITCH  – Language rights lawyer  

                                     “Indigenous Language Rights: Moving Beyond C-91”

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10:30 am   – 10:50 am   Coffee / Health break

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     Plenary round table

“Towards a Declaration for Indigenous Language Policy in Canada: What Next Steps?

 

12:30 pm      Closing remarks