The symposium will take place February 21-22, 2024 at Canad Inns Destination Centre Polo Park.
Manitoba Aboriginal Languages Strategy (MALS) was created to promote, revitalize, and support Aboriginal Languages throughout Manitoba. Ancestral knowledge, as carried in our languages, songs, stories, community histories, and other key practices and customs, connect and bridge generations. The languages of First Nations, Métis and Inuit teach us about who we are as a people. Language creates a strong connection from the past to the present and helps shape Indigenous identity. We recognize the importance of land and the role that the land plays in connecting to our language and history. We also recognize that learning can take place beyond the walls of a classroom.
We invite an interactive approach to share language and welcome individual workshop sessions that may include, but are not limited to:
- Aboriginal writing systems
- Teaching language in the digital age
- Language apps
- Teacher apprenticeships & Aboriginal language immersion programming
- Local initiatives & best practices
- Grandparents and our languages
- Teaching Aboriginal languages
- Community based Aboriginal languages programs
- Language and the Land
- Language program models
- Language Resources
- Stories, songs, and teachings
- Sharing research and policy related to Aboriginal languages
We invite Knowledge Keepers, Elders, educators, students and other interested community members to this year’s conference.
