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Community-Anchored Assessment of Indigenous Second Language Learning in K-12 Schools
Indigenous second language programs in K-12 schools contribute to culturally nourishing education and to the revitalization of Indigenous languages. Assessing Indigenous second language learning presents particular opportunities and challenges based on ...
Shelley Tulloch +6 more
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Case as an Anaphor Agreement Effect: Evidence from Inuktitut
The anaphor agreement effect (AAE) is the crosslinguistic inability for anaphors to covary with φ-agreement (Rizzi 1990, Woolford 1999); languages use various strategies that conspire to circumvent this effect.
Michelle Yuan
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Abstract Background Transferring pregnant women out of their communities for childbirth continues to affect Inuit women living in Nunavik—Inuit territory in Northern Quebec. With estimates of maternal evacuation rates in the region between 14% and 33%, we examine how to support culturally safe birth for Inuit families when birth must take place away ...
Hilah Silver +6 more
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Abstract Faced with the alarming rates of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Canada and in response to the demands of victims' families and Indigenous women's associations, the Canadian government set up the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2016–2019).
Audrey Rousseau, Louis Chartrand
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Adolescences et identité en territoire inuit : introspections filmées
Inuit youth today faces many challenges. They live in areas integrated into globalization, which are nevertheless located on the fringes of the ecumene, grappling with geographic isolation and its consequences in terms of mobility, access to various ...
Fabienne Joliet +2 more
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Abstract This article explores the meaning of community‐driven and owned science in the context of an Inuit‐led land‐based program, the Young Hunters Program. It is the foundational program of the Arviat Aqqiumavvik Society, situated in Nunavut, Canada, a community‐led group dedicated to researching challenges to community wellness and designing and ...
Shirley Tagalik +3 more
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Globally, there is a growing appreciation of the benefits of collaborations between local Indigenous and visiting non‐Indigenous researchers in the study of wildlife populations. In a multi‐decadal collaborative monitoring program of coastal sea ducks in the eastern Canadian Arctic, hiring local Inuit research partners was essential to the program's ...
Samuel Richard +3 more
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Evaluation of the acceptability of a CD-Rom as a health promotion tool for Inuit in Ottawa [PDF]
Background. There are few health promotion tools for urban Inuit, and there is a specific dearth of evaluations on such tools. Objective. The current study used a community-specific approach in the evaluation of a health promotion tool, based on an urban
Kelly E. McShane +5 more
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Early production of the passive in two Eastern Bantu languages [PDF]
The passive construction is acquired relatively late by children learning to speak many languages, with verbal passives not fully acquired till age 6 in English. In other languages it appears earlier, around age 3 or before.
Alcock, Katherine +2 more
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