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Indigenous languages are the foundation of Indigenous knowledges and communities. The Indigenous Languages Thematic Major provides students with an interdisciplinary education in Indigenous Languages that focuses on revitalization, planning, and communication.

Through core courses in Indigenous Studies and Linguistics, students grow as proficient speakers of an Indigenous language and as capable proponents of Indigenous language revitalization. Students have opportunities for experiential learning to complement teaching and research.

Graduates of the program will join a growing community of people who are dedicated to, and have the skills to support, ongoing learning, speaking, researching, and teaching Indigenous languages, contributing to the revitalization of Indigenous languages.

This program leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree (3-year or 4-year). Students may also choose to take this degree as part of an Integrated BEd/BA to pursue a career in teaching Indigenous languages in K-12 classrooms.

SAMPLE COURSES

Oral Immersion in Cree or Ojibwe is intended for students to learn conversational Cree or Ojibwe through community language learning methods. The emphasis is primarily on oral conversations using vocabulary, expressions, simple sentences, and conjunctive sentences of selected themes through contemporary and traditional perspectives.

Indigenous Languages, Contact, & Change examines Indigenous languages of Manitoba and the changes that have occurred due to colonization and assimilation as well as the very serious process of Indigenous language endangerment now occurring on a global scale.

Language Policy and Planning focuses on Indigenous language planning, including corpus, status, and acquisition planning; agency in language planning; writing systems; language resources; dialect variation; language rights; language policies; and language attitudes and undoing cognitive imperialism.

MORE SAMPLE COURSES

Language Revitalization • Indigenous Languages: Culture, Rights, and Conflicts • Intermediate Cree or Ojibwe • Gibiindwewesijigemin: Documenting Indigenous Languages through Oral History Interviews • Indigenous Language Mentorship