With one word a day, this man is teaching the world how to speak Inuktitut
Angus Andersen doesn’t have internet at home. Every day he goes to the mall, Tim Hortons, his favourite bakery in
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Keynote tells Elders and Youth conference in Alaska to move traditional knowledge forward
The youth keynote address on day two of the Elders and Youth Conference, Tuesday, at the Dena’ina Convention Center in
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Alaskan Inuit dialect added to Facebook’s Translate app
Facebook added Inupiaq, an Alaskan Inuit dialect, as a language option thanks to a grassroots project started by an Alaskan
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Blog – Sámi school preserves reindeer herders’ heritage with help of internet
In my previous post, I wrote about how a Concorde jet and Chinese tourists have irrevocably changed Lapland in the
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Alaska Senate joins House in declaring Native languages emergency
The Alaska Senate joined the House on Wednesday in asking Gov. Bill Walker to recognize that the decline of
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Sámi University professor: Sámi instruction has fallen behind
Torkel Rasmussen, a professor at the Sámi University College in Kautokeino, Norway says the Sámi Parliament of Finland, the representative
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Alaska Iñupiaq leaders hope Barrow’s name change to Utqiaġvik helps heal and teach
The new-old name for Barrow may take some practice to pronounce, and it’s time to start: Utqiaġvik won the nod
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From women’s leadership to children’s literature, website spotlights Labrador Inuit
It’s rare you can learn about everything from Labrador’s Inuit women leaders, to children’s Inuktitut literature, in just one place.
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Words ‘Eskimo’ and ‘Aleut’ scrubbed from 2 U.S. laws, yet live on in others
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a bill that removes the words “Oriental,” “Eskimo” and “Aleut” from two federal programs.
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Website launched to help Inuit living with cancer
Video: Sophie Keenlan – One Woman’s Journey When Sophie Keelan found out she had breast cancer in 2007, she experienced the same feelings
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New tool tranlsates Inuit syllabics into Latin alphabet
A Canadian technology company has created a Google extension that will allow people to convert Inuit language syllabics into Roman
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Sámi classes breathe new life into Finland’s rarest languages
By Maura Forrest and Lily Haines | Barents Observer In Inari, Finland, the Sámi Education Institute is teaching young people to
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Finland: English language dominance worries language teachers
Traditional grammar-focused language teaching is no longer effective in adult education, as older generations shy away from it. Today’s adult
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Auditor General: Nunavut, Canada won’t meet bilingual education goals
When a made-in-Nunavut Education Act was passed by the legislative assembly in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut in 2008,
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VIDEO: Interview with Aqqaluk Lynge
Aqqaluk Lynge is a poet and the current chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and the president of the ICC–
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