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2017 Program This Symposium Brings Together Communities, Institutions 2017 Program This symposium brings together communities, institutions, and traditional knowledge holders and scholars to address the current situation by sharing innovations in programming and approaches currently underway. This provides an opportunity for people to share, learn, and co-create a common body of knowledge, from which the creation of a collaborative cross-institutional Indigenous Language Fluency Degree (ILFD) can be strategized. Presentation Schedule: Friday Opening Reception @ En’owkin Centre, Penticton BC Feb. 17.17 4:00 pm Bus leaves from the Coast Capri Hotel for the En’owkin Centre, Penticton BC. 5:30-6:00 pm Reception 6:00-6:30 pm Welcome/Opening Remarks 6:30-7:00 pm Dinner 7:00-7:45 pm Keynote: Jeanette Armstrong - The University of British Columbia, Community, Culture and Global Studies Moving Forward on Language Fluency: Reconciliation and Implementing Indigenous Rights to Language. May 10, 2016, Canada officially removed its ten-year objector status to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The First Nation Education Steering Committee (FNESC) and the Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association (IAHLA) joint focus on adult Indigenous language fluency building in light of BC's endangered and moribund languages, is to strategically situate relevant and necessary adult higher learning as a path to safeguard, for its constituents, their Indigenous knowledges present in their languages and cultures. The focus of my keynote will be the key principles asserted by FNESC and IAHLA in the discussion paper commissioned to assist their collaborative strategy to confront the systematized biases in this critically necessary area of higher learning for the Indigenous Peoples' in British Columbia. The keynote will revisit objectives raised in the discussion paper emphasizing the responsibilities of all partners (including government) in this trailblazing initiative in moving forward together. Jeannette Armstrong is Syilx Okanagan, a fluent speaker and teacher of Nsyilxcn Okanagan language and a traditional knowledge keeper of the Okanagan Nation. She is a founder of En'owkin, the Okanagan Nsyilxcn language and knowledge institution of higher learning. A Ph.D. holder in Environmental Ethics and Syilx Indigenous Literatures, Dr. Armstrong is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Okanagan Philosophy at UBC Okanagan. She is the recipient of the EcoTrust Buffett Award, and recently received the BC George Woodcock lifetime achievement award. Her published works include poetry, prose and children's literary titles and academic writing on a wide variety of Indigenous issues. Over the last 2 decades she has worked in a variety of 1 capacities to protect Indigenous languages and cultures, in part by insisting that these be understood as intrinsically linked, and by helping develop curricula, pedagogy, and institutional conditions that are shaped accordingly. 7:45-8:15 pm Q&A 8:15-8:30 pm Closing 8:45 pm Bus departs En’owkin Centre for the Coast Capri Hotel 2 Saturday UNC 200, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna BC Feb. 18.17 8:15-8:45 am Registration 8:45-9:15 am Welcome/Opening Remarks 9:15-10:00 am Keynote: Brian Maracle - Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa The Root-Word Method: How the Mohawks are creating fluent adult speakers Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa is a full-time, two-year immersion program on the Six Nations Grand River territory that teaches adults to speak Kanyen'keha (the "Mohawk" language). The program creates Advanced- Level speakers on the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) scale. Some of them, in turn, are raising newborn children as first-language speakers. The program, based on its unique root-word method, has spawned similar programs in other communities and in other languages. Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa has also conducted an on-line program based on the root-word method for the past two years. In his keynote address, Owennatekha will discuss the root-word method that is used in the immersion program, as well as their successes and challenges over the last two decades. Owennatekha (Brian Maracle) has been the principal instructor at Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa since he founded it with his wife, Audrey Maracle, in 1999. Before returning to Six Nations in the early 1990s, he was the host of the CBC radio program Our Native Land, a reporter for The Globe and Mail, and the author of two critically acclaimed books on Native issues. Owennatekha did not speak or understand Kanyen'keha as a boy. He used the root-word method to become a speaker in his 40s. Since then he has done most of his writing in Kanyen'keha -- a blog, theatrical skits, short films, comic strips and biographies in the language. He has become one of the speakers on the Turtle Clan side of the Mohawk Longhouse at Six Nations where he helps conduct traditional Iroquois ceremonies, all of them in the Mohawk language. 10:00-10:15 Q&A am 10:15-10:30 Break am 10:30 am- Panel 1: Pedagogy for Adult Learners 12:30 pm Mandy Na’zinek Jimmie: Which Ones Work: Lessons from and about Intergeneration Learning in Classroom settings Laura Cranmer: Pathways to Fluency for Latent Learners 3 Maxine Baptiste: Supporting the Whole Person in Language Learning: Okanagan Experiences and Insights Peter Jacobs and Onowa McIvor: 'One mind, one people': Developing a context-relevant Assessment Tool for adult Indigenous language learners in Canada Mandy Na’zinek Jimmie: Which Ones Work: Lessons from and about Intergeneration Learning in Classroom settings I will be presenting the multi-media approach and strategies I have used to teach predominately young adults Nłeʔkepmxcin - Thompson (River) Salish. Teaching from familiar vocabulary and phrases the students know, I begin to introduce basic sentences and basic word formation students may be familiar with and may advance to the level they feel comfortable using. Mandy Na’zinek Jimmie has committed her entire work life to working on Nłeʔkepmxcin and Nicola Valley Education. Mandy took the opportunity to enter the field of education attaining her Bachelor of Education-Elementary degree through UBC in 1979. She began formal study in Nłeʔkepmxcin in 1986 and in 1994, she graduated with a Master of Arts in Linguistics at the UBC. She has been involved with the Nicola Valley First Nations Education, she continues to be involved in the School District First Nations Education Council and the Local Education. She also has been involved in many provincial language and education initiatives over the past twenty-five years. It would make her extremely happy, if there was an immersion program for adults and children before there are too few speakers to maintain Nłeʔkepmxcin, that we could create at least 500 fluent speakers to pass on our language to the upcoming generations. Laura Cranmer: Pathways to Fluency for Latent Learners Engagement with an Indigenous language as an adult is a complex sociological and linguistic process. My own engagement with Kwak'wala and its speakers is tied up in my own identity as a language learner attempting to reclaim Kwak'wala. As an adult learner, I engaged phonological memories from my childhood via some print literacy skills in order to deepen my understanding of the how Kwak'wala works grammatically, lexically and syntactically. Decolonization and language recovery are linked, and there are multiple pathways to language fluency depending on the particular colonial histories of the people and communities involved. This paper explores a few such pathways, focusing on latent learners. (Please note, the presenter has confirmed they will join us, but this abstract is tentative and may change). 4 Dr. Laura Cranmer has been an instructor with First Nations Studies at Vancouver Island University (Nanaimo, BC) since 2000. As a residential school survivor, Laura has used her academic training to help her make meaning of her familial history as shaped by colonial policy. As a 'Namgis scholar, one of her research interests is the use of theatre methods to explore issues of Indigenous identity. Among her research and publications, Laura has published classroom-based research results of using Image Theatre as a research method to explore First Nations oratory. In this way she developed student theatre troupes that present to Indigenous and other audiences. Her PhD dissertation (UBC 2016) "Reclaiming Kwak'wala through Co-constructing Gwanti'lakw's Vision" presents an auto-ethnographic inquiry into Indigenous heritage language reclamation of Kwak'wala. Maxine Baptiste: Supporting the Whole Person in Language Learning: Okanagan Experiences and Insights Language fluency program development should take into consideration prior learning experiences of adult aboriginal learners that may affect the success of adult learners. Adult aboriginal learners come into our classes, programs and institutions with a number of issues. They already have experienced systemic racism having been streamlined through a high school non-academic vocational program. They are either Residential School survivors or have intergenerational impacts due to parental/grandparental attendance at residential school. These students require academic upgrading, trauma counselling and supports for the barriers they are faced with within the academic setting. A strong support system within the institution within an indigenous community framework, access to mentors and/or Elders, language and culture, land based learning, traditional Indigenous teaching and learning techniques, incorporating storytelling and the arts, will foster reciprocal relationships and provide a holistic learning experience which will assist in overcoming the barriers to education and to foster lifelong learning. Maxine Baptiste has been involved in Okanagan language initiatives for many years. She obtained a BA in Linguistics at the University of Victoria, an MA in linguistics at the University of BC, Vancouver, and is a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona Language, Reading and Culture Program. As a linguist, she has provided her support to the language programs and projects in the Okanagan member communities as a language consultant, curriculum developer, materials developer and language teacher.
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