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Wanosts鈥檃7 Lorna Williams, Lil鈥檞atul from Mount Currie BC, is being honoured with a 2018 Indspire Award for her contributions to Indigenous education. At UVic, the Professor Emerita Williams co-designed and developed three degree programs in collaboration with Indigenous communities: the bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degrees in Indigenous language revitalization, and the Counselling in Indigenous Communities master鈥檚 degree program.

Visiting the K鈥櫭砿oks First Nation

A new language revitalization project led by UVic will bring new life and strength to Indigenous languages in Canada. NE染OL峁圗W瘫, which translates as 'one mind, one people' in SEN膯O纽EN, is a six-year project supported by a $2.5M SSHRC Partnership Grant that will create a learning and research network with nine Indigenous-led partner organizations across the country.

A new language revitalization project led by the 番茄社区 will bring new life and strength to at least 42 Indigenous languages in Canada. NE染OL峁圗W瘫 will work with nine Indigenous-led partner organizations across the country, forming a learning and research network to strengthen efforts to revive Indigenous languages.

One could say that humanities graduate student Ildara Enr铆quez was born for her role as a linguistics researcher. Growing up on the Iberian Peninsula in the northwest region of Spain, Enriquez spoke her native language of Galician at home. At school, she conversed in Spanish.Both were official languages, but as a teenager, Enr铆quez made a decision.

A week-long intensive course in Cambridge Bay is a perfect example of the range of compelling experiential-learning courses offered by UVic for students within the CALR program. Taught by Nunavut Arctic College instructor Emily Angulalik last year, LING 187 was featured this past season as part of a national CBC story.

鈥婳n Saturday, the Indigenous versions of the Douglas Treaties鈥攏ever before available in the local languages鈥攚ill be presented in a ceremony at the Songhees Wellness Centre (during a three-day gathering) to the Royal BC Museum to be kept in perpetuity.

The presentation of the first-ever translations in the local Indigenous languages of the original Douglas Treaties of the colony of Vancouver Island is a pivotal element in a historic event taking place Feb. 24-26 in Victoria as part of UVic's Canada 150 celebrations.

Adult learners are a "missing generation" in Indigenous language revitalization. The majority of fluent speakers are 70 years of age or older and although young children in immersion are speaking their languages in increasing numbers, many Indigenous adults aged 18 to 60 do not. Onowa McIvor (Indigenous education) and Peter Jacobs (linguistics) just wrapped up the first study of the Mentor-Apprentice Program for Indigenous adult language learners in BC.

Linguist Alexandra D鈥橝rcy plans to address one of the most perplexing challenges in linguistics in a new study exploring how kids talk. She is looking for 30 more candidates for the Kids Talk project, focusing on the same cohort of children first as preschoolers, then in the playground.

An endangered Indigenous language and an endangered West Coast wildlife icon stand to benefit from the work of two new Banting Postdoctoral Fellows at UVic. Valued at $70,000 per year for two years, the fellowships are intended to groom Canada's next generation of research leaders.

UVic offers the only master鈥檚 degree in the country specializing in Indigenous language revitalization and it draws people from across Canada. Now, for the first time, the program itself has travelled east鈥攂ringing the curriculum to UVic students on site at the University of Saskatchewan beginning July 12.

UVic linguistics associate professor Sonya Bird was listening to the CBC Radio 鈥淪park鈥� program in early 2014 when she first heard the voice of Rupal Patel, a Canadian researcher based in Boston who launched the VocaliD Human Voicebank in May 2014.

Paula Ceroni probably knows how to say 鈥渉ello鈥� and 鈥渨elcome鈥� in more languages than just about anyone else on campus. That鈥檚 one of the perks of her job in the English Language Centre, managing UVic鈥檚 homestay program. Each year the program places over 1,600 students from as many as 30 countries into 600 host families (and they are always looking for more hosts).

Art Napoleon was already a national figure when his TV show, Moosemeat & Marmalade, premiered on APTN in January 2015. He had performed at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, opened for Buffy Sainte-Marie and been interviewed by veteran correspondent Tom Hawthorn for the Globe and Mail in September 2010 for the release of his album Creeland Covers, sung almost exclusively in Cree.

On a hot summer evening in front of Cadboro Commons, the smell of barbecued meat is still hanging in the air as Kumbia, a local salsa band, hits the first notes of a signature Santana tune, Oye Como Va. The audience is a group of close to 150 international students from more than a dozen countries who are attending UVic鈥檚 summer English Language and Culture program.