Aboriginal language literacy

This report was developed by the Nunavut Literacy Council (NLC) in response to the Nunavut Roundtable for Poverty Reduction’s call for contributions to an action plan.

Workplace Education Manitoba’s (WEM’s) Numeracy: The Basics video series offers a refresher course in math. It includes 50 videos, covering 25 numeracy topics, divided into concept and practice.

This annual report offers an update on the work of the Yukon Literacy Coalition (YLC), an organization committed to supporting and encouraging literacy in all the languages of the Yukon.

The document includes reports from the president of the coalition’s board, its executive director, and the director of its family literacy centre.

The National Strategy on Inuit Education is the result of an initiative launched in 2006. At that time, data suggested that about 75 per cent of Inuit children were not completing high school, and many who did graduate found that their skills and knowledge didn’t compare to those of their non-Aboriginal counterparts.

This paper summarizes results from the Nunavut Literacy Council’s literature review and field research on bilingual (English and Inuit) language development in Nunavut.

This document summarizes the proceedings of a workshop held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, in February 2009 to discuss Inuit language acquisition and literacy development. The workshop, organized by the Nunavut Literacy Council (NLC), brought together researchers, policy-makers and community groups representing Inuit language issues from Nunavut, the Northwest Territories (NWT), Nunavik (Northern Quebec) and Labrador.

The demand for Aboriginal books in schools, adult education and literacy programs is increasing. The goal of the Sharing the Gift: Aboriginal Literacy & Literary Artists’ Gala 2009 was to provide an opportunity for Aboriginal learners and Elders, as well as practitioners and educators in Saskatchewan, to celebrate, share, and be empowered about Aboriginal literacy and literature.

This resource promoting the celebration of Aboriginal Languages Month is intended to raise awareness about Aboriginal Languages loss and the importance of maintaining these languages. Through this resource, the NWT Literacy council hopes to help readers:

This resource is a transcript of the Nunavut Literacy Council's Qikiqtani regional workshop on literacy that was held February 27 - 29, 2008. The workshop proceedings have been organized into the following sections:

The NWT Literacy Council published its first bibliography of Aboriginal books in 2006. Since that time many new works have been created by aboriginal authors, illustrators and translators. This second bibliography contains new works as well as other works not included in the first listing.