LING 315 - Linguistics

LING 315: LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION: HOW TO AWAKEN OUR PEOPLE TO OWNERSHIP
3 CREDITS

This is a foundational course which will bring forward an awareness of the repercussions of colonization and assimilation processes and how these impacted ownership and responsibility to the development, maintenance and revitalization of our own languages and culture. The focus for this course is to review and highlight the need to decolonize and to accept the responsibility of promoting, developing and maintaining our own languages, to reawaken the lack of passion towards our own mother tongues in the Cree/Anishinaabe/Stoney communities. We cannot expect others who are not a part of the Original Peoples' worldviews to play a key role for language awakening in our communities; we are the owners and speakers of our languages. The focus of this course is primarily on processes for footwork in the community to promote ownership. This foundational course will encourage the students to actively work towards revitalizing the ownership of the language within the community.