Description:
The purpose of Manitoba Aboriginal Languages Strategy, MALS, is to promote, revitalize, and retain the Aboriginal Languages in Manitoba based on ancestral knowledges of our Grandparents. Understanding the connectedness of generations and the importance of Aboriginal languages teach us who we are as a people. Language ensures a strong connection from the past to the present in a positive way. Our land is where our language is learned and we as Aboriginal people need to learn beyond the walls of a classroom.
The 2nd Annual Indigenous Languages Symposium will honour Grandparents knowledge and Experiences, language program models, strategies, and resources representative to the seven language groups in Manitoba. Come share the importance of language retention, revitalization, and promotion.
Keynote speakers and individual workshop sessions may include, but are not limited to:
Link(s):
2021 Symposium Program (
2 MB)
2020 Symposium Evaluation ( 70 KB)
2021 Schedule and Workshop Descriptions ( 469 KB)
Save the Date ( 73 KB)
2020 Symposium Program ( 131 KB)
Questions:
Kelly Forgala, Event Manager
E: symposium.mals@gmail.com
P: 204 391 4419
| SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOPS | PRESENTERS |
|---|---|
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Vanessa Goodtunder, Director, Cansayapi Wakanyeza Owayawa Oti,Early Head Start and Head Start Program, Lower Sioux Indian Community |
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Dr. Lorena Fontaine, Indigenous Academic Lead, co-director of the Indigenous Language Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Winnipeg |
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Wanda Barker, Gloria Barker |
| Judy Doolittle, Michael Li | |
| Šišóka Dúta (Wayne Joseph Bendickson), Anke al-Bataineh, Raine Cloud (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota) | |
| Jed Meltzer | |
| Isaiah Beardy, Bill Jancewicz, Jeff Green | |
| Marsha Blacksmith | |
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John-Paul Chalykoff |
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Melanie Kennedy, Lorena Fontaine |
| Charity Cooper | |
| Marlene Quinney, Diana Steinhauer | |
| Laura Forsythe |