Language preservation key to reconciliation
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40187
- Author
- Forget, Andre
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2017 January
- Author
- Forget, Andre
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2017 January
- Volume
- 143
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 6
- Notes
- "If the Anglican Church of Canada wants to strengthen its reconciliation efforts, it should continue to provide funds for the preservation of Indigenous languages, says Esther Wesley, co-ordinator for the Anglican Fund for Healing and Reconciliation". "Of the various kinds of initiative the fund supports, the largest single category has been translation and language preservation. Of the $7,359,209 the fund has dispersed since it was established [in 1991], roughly $960,000 -- around 13 per cent -- has gone toward a total of 70 languages and translation projects across the country". "Wesley explained that over the course of her 15 years as co-ordinator for the fund, she has become convinced that most of the issues Indigenous peoples are facing have a common root: the loss of identity that occurred when Indigenous children were taken from their homes and forced to attend residential schools -- loss of identity that was tied up in loss of language, she said". "Wesley said that she started compiling the fund's statistics during a sabbatical in 2016".
- Subjects
- Wesley, Esther
- Anglican Church of Canada. Aboriginal Healing Fund - Statistics
- Anglican Church of Canada. Anglican Fund for Healing and Reconciliation - Statistics
- Indigenous languages - Canada
- Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada