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Two new Sami languages added to Swedish children’s book app

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 15:04
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Sami Language Week ran from October 19-25, an occasion that was marked, along other events,  by the addition of two

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Finland General RCI Society Society (Finland) 

Everyone encouraged to boost Sami language visibility in Finland, Norway and Sweden this week

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 15:56
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Sami Language Week is underway this week in Finland, Norway and Sweden and everyone is being encouraged to make Sami

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Canada General RCI Society Society (Canada) 

What’s in a name? How a government project forced surnames on Inuit in Canada

Katherine Barton, CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 12, 2020 at 12:30
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With Project Surname, Inuit had to choose and register family names, which were not common in their culture After a

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Canada plans to conduct its first survey in Inuktut

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2020 at 13:23
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Statistics Canada, which admits to having historical “data gaps” in the North, will conduct its first survey in all four

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

International Inuit organization launches new podcast

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, August 10, 2020 at 09:19
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The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) launched a new podcast last week that the organization hopes will amplify the work, and

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) RCI 

Inuit TV coming to Northern Canada from new Inuktut-language broadcaster

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 15:21 — Last Updated: Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 15:30
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Nunavut is getting a new all-Inuktut TV channel this year. Inuit TV will have Inuktut programming in dialects from all Inuit

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Culture Culture (Norway) General Norway 

Walt Disney Animation Studios to release Saami-language version of “Frozen 2”

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 09:37 — Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 16:40
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The sequel to the Walt Disney mega-hit film Frozen will also be available in the Saami language,  Walt Disney Animation

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Inuit languages declining in Canada’s Nunavut territory, stats show

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 10:30
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Inuit languages declined in Nunavut in the 15 years between 2001 and 2016, according to a Statistics Canada report released

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

What can the Indigenous, Irish language revival movements learn from each other?

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 15:29 — Last Updated: Friday, April 12, 2019 at 16:25
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For most people, a panel on the Irish-language revival movement, probably wouldn’t be top-of-mind at a First Peoples’ conference, but

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

U.N. Year of Indigenous Languages: When policy isn’t enough

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, April 5, 2019 at 15:57 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 14:11
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The United Nations has designated 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages. The goal is to to make people more

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Not a ‘bad thing’ if Canada’s Nunavut territory sued over bilingual education, says lawyer

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 11:34 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 11:42
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A Nunavut lawyer says it wouldn’t be such a “bad thing” if the government of Nunavut (Canadian eastern Arctic) was

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Former Inuit leader to receive Canada’s highest civilian honour

CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 28, 2018 at 16:30 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 10:31
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Nunavut’s former premier Eva Aariak was named to the Order of Canada by Governor General Julie Payette on Thursday along

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General News Politics Politics (USA) USA 

‘Our ancestors are our fire’: Elders and Youth conference hosted in southern Alaska

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 13:53
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Day one of the annual Elders and Youth conference wrapped up in Anchorage, southern Alaska on Monday. The annual conference

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General News 

10,000 pages of Indigenous language material published online in Northwestern Canada

Philippe Morin, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 30, 2018 at 16:41
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A collection of Yukon Indigenous language books has been scanned, organized and made freely available online. There’s at least 10,000

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General News 

Canadian Inuit language settings coming soon to Facebook

Michelle Pucci, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 9, 2018 at 12:31
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Facebook users could be clicking “piugijara” instead of the “like” button to show they support someone’s post by next year.

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