COMMUNITY LANGUAGE
PLANNING WORKSHOP

The Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural Centre’s (SICC’s) mandate is to protect, preserve and promote the languages and cultures of the First Nations peoples of Saskatchewan. It is our dream to witness all First Nations people learning our ways, speaking our languages and living our lives as given by the Creator. The SICC was founded in 1972 at the direction of our Elders and leadership to promote, protect, preserve, and revitalize the cultures and languages of the First Nations of Saskatchewan and this remains true today.

 

The Community Language Planning Workshop is the outcome of the relationship between SICC staff, Elders Council and community language representatives. It is our hope that language champions, educators, professionals, and anyone interested in language revitalization will find this workshop is useful within their communities as it will benefit any First Nation language.

 

Our ancestors foresaw that our languages would be close to the brink of extinction and now we are at a crucial moment in time where we must act. Many First Nations in Saskatchewan have implemented language programming in their communities and what once seemed inevitable is now attainable.