Language warriors

Notes: "Starr Sock did not attend a residential school. But she remembers, as a child, seeing the students who came home for the summer". "Stripped of their native language and culture, the children could no longer speak to their families or be understood. Neither did they understand traditional ways. The granddaughter of a grand chief, Sock feels fortunate to have been raised by aunts who taught her to be proud of her heritage. Today Sock and her friends and colleagues, Sherise Paul-Gould and Ida Denny, have become 'language warriors'. Through their efforts, a Mi'kmaq Immersion Project (MIP) pilot project was launched at Eskasoni in 2000. The project which has had a huge positive impact on this community of 4,000, continues to this day".

Subjects: Sock, Starr; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools; Indigenous languages - Canada; Mi'kmaq language; Mi'kmaq Immersion Project