Breathing life back into the stories: CREATING THE CIRCLE OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES WEBSITE

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dc.contributor.authorRoss, Charlotte
dc.contributor.authorGreyeyes, Joan
dc.contributor.authorMcIvor, Onowa
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-15T16:53:48Z
dc.date.available2024-07-15T16:53:48Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis paper describes an innovative project undertaken to create a website to share historical recordings of the nēhiyaw (Cree), Nahkawe, and Michif languages of Saskatchewan. Each author played a role in the delivery of a graduate program that took place simultaneously alongside the creation of the Circle of Indigenous Languages (COIL) website. This paper explores the importance of Indigenous networking and a collective consciousness towards Indigenous language revitalization as neither project would have happened without the spark and interconnection of the other. Weaving together our language experiences, we highlight the strength of aligned synergies. This paper also addresses critical issues pertaining to cultural continuity for Indigenous Peoples by embracing technology. Therefore, the greatest impact of the COIL project was to koskopita (reawaken) the stories from inaccessible formats in private collections. The project of digitization, categorization, and website creation provided access to old stories, and therefore “whole language,” now shared in the public domain. Our journey with technology and the experience gained can be used by other language communities to support Indigenous language documentation.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.identifier.citationRoss, C., Greyeyes, J., & McIvor, O. (2021). Breathing life back into the stories: Creating the circle of Indigenous languages website. WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship, 16(1), 302-333. https://doi.org/10.18357/wj161202120290
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.18357/wj161202120290
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/16749
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship
dc.relation.ispartofseries1
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectdigitization
dc.subjectarchiving
dc.subjectwebsite creation
dc.subjectadult language learning
dc.subjectIndigenous language revitalization
dc.subjectnēhiyaw
dc.subjectNahkawe
dc.subjectMichif
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Indigenous Education
dc.titleBreathing life back into the stories: CREATING THE CIRCLE OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES WEBSITE
dc.typeArticle

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