Effects of COVID-19 on ILR Efforts
A NEȾOLṈEW̱ research team has been studying the effects of COVID–19 on ILR efforts throughout the pandemic. Key findings of the research are presented in this comprehensive infographic. ...
Words of Encouragement
Indigenous peoples have always persisted. See this beautiful video developed by NEȾOLṈEW̱ Collaborator Dr. Kari A. B. Chew to learn how ILR efforts continued through the COVID-19 pandemic....
IIRC 2020 Presentation
Indigenous language learning and revitalization work is necessarily relational and often territorially-based. Across Canada, the US, and the world, a large number of Indigenous communities, organizati...
KAHNAWÀ:KE Education Center – NEȾOLṈEW̱ Project
The Kahnawà:ke Education Center, one of the NEȾOLṈEW̱ partners, have been focused on supporting in-service Kanien’kéha immersion teachers....
Growing the Fire Within
Exploring Innovative and Successful Adult Language Learning Methods in Indigenous Communities in Canada and the US. Indigenous peoples have worked for decades to revitalize their languages. Much of th...
COVID19 Impact on ILR – Social Media Responses
A team of NEȾOLṈEW̱ researchers is storying the impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous language revitalization (ILR)....
Indigenous languages in Canada: What you need to know
On the 11th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Sept. 13, 2007), the Canadian Commission on UNESCO published a three-page quick-facts and ...
‘Let the Languages Live’ Conference
The UVIC Team and many of the NEȾOLṈEW̱ Partners and collaborators attended the HELISET TŦE SḰÁL conference on June 24-26, 2019, held on the territories of the Lekwungen speaking Peoples....
NILLA Position Paper
This paper reports the outcomes from two community engagement events with Indigenous partners and allies, on a) the development of NILLA, and b) more broadly our position on strengthening research by ...
MAP Research Report
Adult Indigenous contributions to reviving languages in BC through Mentor-Apprentice style learning....
Reviving Your Language Through Education
Dr. Onowa McIvor, together with the First Nations Schools Association and the First Nations Education Steering Committee, created Reviving Your Language Through Education, a workbook designed to assis...
Home-Based Language Learning
In this NEȾOLṈEW̱ VLOG Series video, NILLA Coordinator and Research Assistant Robby Smoker-Peters (Nlaka’pamux) shares useful language revitalization and maintenance resources in the topic of ho...