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Feature Interview: Are Inuit youth losing their language?

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
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Politicians and and educators across Nunavut are working to promote Inuit language use among children and youth. Image: Radio Canada International. Inuit Language Week week wrapped up in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut last week. During this period, the focus across the territory was on language activities and education.

While the Inuit language is still strong in the eastern Arctic, in many western Arctic communities the predominant language has become English.

Many Inuit youth are no longer able to speak their language and this has educators and politicians concerned.

To find out more, I spoke spoke with Simon Awa, Nunavut’s deputy minister of Culture and Heritage, last week from Iqaluit, Nunavut.

To listen to the interview on Radio Canada International, click here

Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.

Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for “Best Investigative Article or Series” at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The project also received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.

Her report “The Arctic Railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?” on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category.

Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.

Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC’s flagship news cast.

Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."

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