Everyone encouraged to boost Sami language visibility in Finland, Norway and Sweden this week
Sami Language Week is underway this week in Finland, Norway and Sweden and everyone is being encouraged to make Sami
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What’s in a name? How a government project forced surnames on Inuit in Canada
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 plans to conduct its first survey in Inuktut
Statistics Canada, which admits to having historical “data gaps” in the North, will conduct its first survey in all four
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International Inuit organization launches new podcast
The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) launched a new podcast last week that the organization hopes will amplify the work, and
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Inuit TV coming to Northern Canada from new Inuktut-language broadcaster
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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Walt Disney Animation Studios to release Saami-language version of “Frozen 2”
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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Inuit languages declining in Canada’s Nunavut territory, stats show
Inuit languages declined in Nunavut in the 15 years between 2001 and 2016, according to a Statistics Canada report released
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What can the Indigenous, Irish language revival movements learn from each other?
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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U.N. Year of Indigenous Languages: When policy isn’t enough
The United Nations has designated 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages. The goal is to to make people more
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Not a ‘bad thing’ if Canada’s Nunavut territory sued over bilingual education, says lawyer
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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Former Inuit leader to receive Canada’s highest civilian honour
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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‘Our ancestors are our fire’: Elders and Youth conference hosted in southern Alaska
Day one of the annual Elders and Youth conference wrapped up in Anchorage, southern Alaska on Monday. The annual conference
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10,000 pages of Indigenous language material published online in Northwestern Canada
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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Canadian Inuit language settings coming soon to Facebook
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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Activists say use of Finnish in Sweden is being restricted
Finnish speakers in Sweden are protesting about what they say is language-based discrimination. The group of activists wrote an op-ed
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