Events

The University of Winnipeg (Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre, Indigenous Affairs/Engagement, Oral History Centre), University of Manitoba, Indigenous Languages of Manitoba (ILMB), Native Communications Inc. Radio (NCI, a Manitoba Indigenous public broadcaster) and Mazinaate Publishing Partnership (an Indigenous owned company that publishes language learning books and resources to encourage language learners) have collaborated on an Indigenous Language radio show that is scheduled to start in January 2021.

Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre and Indigenous Languages of Manitoba saw this as an exciting opportunity to build on their language outreach in a time of the pandemic, to be part of something that hadn’t been done before. Students taking Indigenous language classes will be able to hear the Ojibwe language with a community of speakers. The intent of the radio program is to create an Indigenous language speaking community outside of the classroom. Each episode will be available on the University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, Indigenous Languages of Manitoba and Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre websites with the accompanying language lesson. You will also find more information about the writer Patricia Ningewance, all the Anishinaabe language speakers and the rest of the team!