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Opinion: Canada must keep its word to revitalize Indigenous languages

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Indigenous languages maintain millennia of distinct place-based knowledge, whether ecological, spiritual or relational. However, the overwhelming majority of Indigenous languages across Canada are threatened by the country’s historic and ongoing processes in language devitalization.

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Whether in treaty, land claims or negotiations, neither Indigenous Peoples nor their respective Indigenous governments have agreed to relinquish their rights to speak their own languages. However, Canada catalyzed the ongoing separation of Indigenous Peoples from their ancestral........

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