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Le décloisonnement du passage du Nord-Ouest

open access: yesIdeAs, 2018
Stimulated by the impact of climate change on the Arctic, several interest groups (states and shipowners) see the Northwest Passage as a dream route to navigate between Europe and Asia at the far North of the North American continent.
Alain Adrien Grenier
doaj   +1 more source

Revitalizing Indigenous Languages, Fostering Self‐Governance, Overcoming the Indian Act: A Case Study of Lil'wat Nation

open access: yesCanadian Public Administration, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 470-486, September 2025.
Abstract This article examines how Indigenous language revitalization serves as a foundation for self‐governance and legal resurgence, focusing on the Lil'wat Nation's efforts to reclaim Ucwalmícwts. Drawing on presentations from the 30th Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium and community‐based sources, the article highlights how language encodes
Qátsya7 Mason Ducharme   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two Uummarmiutun modals – including a brief comparison with Utkuhikšalingmiutut cognates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The paper is concerned with the meaning of two modal postbases in Uummarmiutun, hungnaq ‘probably’ and ȓukȓau ‘should’. Uummarmiutun is an Inuktut dialect spoken in the Western Arctic.
Berthelin, Signe Rix
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Rethinking French‐as‐a‐second‐language education as a space for supporting Indigenous language work on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) land

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 3, Page 586-606, Autumn (Fall) 2025.
Abstract In Canada, growing awareness of multilingualism in language teacher education requires educators to rethink how we practice language education. Many are increasingly questioning how established English–French official language programming can be reconciled with the reviving and reclaiming of Indigenous languages, and how we might think across ...
Meike Wernicke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A mission for grammar writing : early approaches to Inuit (Eskimo) languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The Inuit inhabit a vast area of--from a European point of view--most inhospitable land, stretching from the northeastern tip of Asia to the east coast of Greenland.
Nowak, Elke
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Discours et identité à Iqaluit après l’avènement du Nunavut [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Examining the results of interviews conducted in Iqaluit in 2003 with 35 Inuit individuals, this article attempts at shedding some light on the perceptions of respondents concerning the language situation in the North after the advent of Nunavut.
Dorais, Louis-Jacques
core   +1 more source

Inclusivity of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Fisheries Management

open access: yesFish and Fisheries, Volume 26, Issue 4, Page 669-687, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Indigenous Peoples have developed knowledge systems that foster respectful and reciprocal relations between humans and other‐than‐human beings, supporting resilient ecosystems and societies. Despite the impacts of colonisation, Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) endure in many parts of the world, and there is growing recognition that IKS can ...
Keshia Moffat   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Réflexions d’Inuit en contexte post-colonial : des identités culturelles en marche

open access: yesLengas
This article explores the existing dynamics between languages and identities in a changing multilingual indigenous context in Nunavik. Although immersed in Inuit culture throughout their lives, many Inuit today do not understand or speak their ancestral ...
Natacha Roudeix
doaj   +1 more source

Caribou, river and ocean: Harvaqtuurmiut landscape organization and orientation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The Harvaqtuurmiut were an Inuit society whose territory was Harvaqtuuq—the lower Kazan River—between the outlet of Hikuligjuaq (Yathkyed Lake) and the river’s mouth at Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake).
Keith, Darren
core   +1 more source

Bootstrapping a Neural Morphological Generator from Morphological Analyzer Output for Inuktitut

open access: yesProceedings of the Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages, 2019
We present a method for building a morphological generator from the output of an existing analyzer for Inuktitut, in the absence of a two-way finite state transducer which would normally provide this functionality.
J. Micher
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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