Native / Indigenous Languages General Resources

First Peoples' Cultural Council

From the website: The First Peoples' Cultural Council is a First Nations-run Crown Corporation with a mandate to support the revitalization of Aboriginal language, arts and culture in British Columbia. We provide funding and resources to communities, monitor the status of First Nations languages and develop policy recommendations for First Nations leadership and government.

First Voices: Language Legacies Celebrating Indigenous Cultures

From the website: FirstVoices is a group of web-based tools and services designed to support Aboriginal people engaged in language archiving, language teaching & culture revitalization.

Alberta Aboriginal Studies Curriculum

Alberta curriculum documents for the secondary aboriginal studies courses.

Canada's Aboriginal Languages

Canada's Aboriginal Languages are many and diverse, and their importance to indigenous people immense. Language is one of the most tangible symbols of culture and group identity.

Indigenous Language Institute

From the website:  The Indigenous Language Institute provides vital language related services to Native communities so that their individual identities, traditional wisdom and values are passed on to future generations in their original languages.

Language Gathering

From the website: Envisioned Cultural Survival’s inaugural Endangered Languages Program-planning session hosted by the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma’s Language Department in Stroud, Oklahoma, in 2007, this website is a tribute to and platform connecting surviving Indigenous language communities of North America (within the United States, initially) and the many hundreds of community-based language projects they’ve inspired. In months and years to come this permanent resource will expand to profile and connect Indigenous language revitalization efforts underway globally.

Dene K'ee Gudeh

Dene K'ee Gudeh, "the Dene Language", is an app and website that aims to help people learn the Dene Zhatie language, also known as South Slavey.

The Fight to Revitalize Canada's Indigenous Languages

A 2010 article in University Affairs about endangered indigenous languages in Canada and various revitilization projects that intend to give voice to ancestral knowledge and connect children, youth, adults, and elders through cultural and linguistic programming.

Cultural Survival

From the website: For 40 years Cultural Survival has partnered with Indigenous communities around the world to defend their lands, languages, and cultures.

Language Geek

From the website: Languagegeek is dedicated to the promotion of indigenous languages – primarily those of North America. By providing the tools which speakers, educators, and learners can use to communicate on-line or in print, the realm of computers will no longer be the sole domain of a few global languages. Whether it be e-mails, web pages, or word processing, computers have the potential to be a powerful means to level the playing field among all of the world’s languages.

Native Languages: An Ontario Ministry of Education Support Document for the Teaching of Language Patterns - Ojibwe and Cree

From the website: This resource guide is indtended for teachers of Ontario Ojibwe and Cree. Its purpose is to organize, extend, and reinforce teachers' knowledge of the language patterns that occur in these Native languages, and to clarify and explain the structure and function of the various language elements (words and word parts) that make up these patterns. It is hoped that teachers will find the guide helpful in developing lessons and in evaluating teaching materials for their usefulness in fostering patterns that characterize these Native languages.

Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and promoting American Indian Languages

From the website: Welcome to Native Languages of the Americas! We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology. Our website is not beautiful. Probably, it never will be. But this site has inner beauty, for it is, or will be, a compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the people that speak them.

Omniglot

From the website: Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages.

Our Mother Tongues

An organisation dedicated to raising awareness of the urgency for protecting and promoting indigenous languages. It works through a wide variety of media such as podcasts, documentary-making, and interactive story-sharing opportunities.

Curriculum and Resources for First Nations Language Programs in BC First Nations Schools

Resource Directory from the First Nations Education Steering Committee.

Univeristy of Alaska Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Centre

From the website: The Alaska Native Language Center was established by state legislation in 1972 as a center for research and documentation of the twenty Native languages of Alaska. It is internationally known and recognized as the major center in the United States for the study of Eskimo and Northern Athabascan languages.