[:en] www.nti-inhabit.com (March 24, 2020) - Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. and Inhabit Media Inc. are committed to ensuring that Inuit children and youth have access to high-quality Inuktut books and educational resources to support language learning from home. As this need is now urgent due to the current COVID-19 crisis [...]
The Association francophones du Nunavut agrees that Inuit, in their own homeland, a territory which has a majority of Inuit citizens, should have access to Inuktut language education and government services. AfrancophoneNu Inuit language rights
GN pledges $25M for revamped NTEP By Nunatsiaq News Though the agreement’s not final, the governments of Canada and Nunavut are promising to spend a combined total of up to $67 million over five years on supporting and revitalizing Inuktut in Nunavut. The Department of Canadian Heritage announced those spending [...]
What’s in an Inuktut name? The reclaiming of Inuit history and language, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. says. The Inuit birthright organization has encouraged 14 municipalities in the territory that still use English names to consider a switch to their original Inuktut names. “With 2019 being the International Year of Indigenous [...]
BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN Twenty years after legislators carved out Nunavut from the Northwest Territories as a new, majority-Inuit territory, advocates say Ottawa must do more to protect and enhance language and culture to live up to that vision. One of the main objectives in forming Nunavut was to [...]
“One of the aspirations for Nunavut was for Inuktut to remain the majority language” Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. marked Nunavut Day with a pledge to become an Inuktut-language workplace. NTI officials announced those plans at an event held in Kugluktuk on Wednesday, July 9. “One of the aspirations for Nunavut was [...]
[:en]Nunavut Day was celebrated on Tuesday and we’re 20 years into the creation of a territory with tremendous promise. Much has been accomplished over two decades and much remains to be done. Among the priorities is – or should be – the establishment of Inuktut-based education from kindergarten to Grade [...]
