Taking back identity: New learners fight to keep First Nations languages in B.C. alive
Chrissie John clearly remembers her mother using bits and pieces of their first language growing up.
Records show children were regularly punished physically or verbally if they used their mother tongues. Those who returned home from residential schools often did so without that part of themselves and the intergenerational impacts of that loss have been sweeping.“Language loss is a huge part of colonialism. Learning [it] gives me that identity back.”The figure marks a continued decline in the number of fluent speakers, but a hopeful jump in those willing to learn.
Haahuupa, for instance, means to teach someone gently and with love, rather than with shame. John says it attests to a culture starkly different than the one that attempted to assimilate her people. In both years, the numbers only reflect data from the First Nations communities that contributed to the reports, and not all 204 that exist in B.C.
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