The Yinka Déné Language Institute
646 Stoney Creek Road
Vanderhoof BC V0J 3A1 Canada
250-561-5848, local 5460 (telephone)
250-561-5874 (FAX)

The Yinka Déné Language Institute is devoted to the preservation and promotion of Yinka Dene language and culture. Our activities include:

• Encouraging the use of our languages.
• Publishing material in our languages.
• Producing documentation for our languages
• Training researchers, language teachers, and other language specialists.
• Developing curricula.
• Producing teaching materials for our languages and culture.
• Archiving material on our languages, culture, and history.

Announcements

CSTC Language Planning

YDLI has received support from the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council to conduct a Language Forum in April to outline urban and community needs for language revitalization. Now the CSTC has contracted Archie Patrick (Stellat'en) to do more consultations and then draft a Three Year Language Strategy.

University of Victoria Certificate Program in Aboriginal Language Revitalization

Four courses are being offered this summer: Language Revitalization Principles and Practices and Introductory Linguistics for Language Revitalization in May and June at the En'owkin Centre in Penticton and Language Learning and Teaching in Situations of Language Loss and Field Methods for Language Preservation and Revitalization in August at the University of Victoria. More detailed information is here.

Louie Family CDs

The CD of the Louie Family Singers singing traditional Carrier songs is available again.

Northwest Journal of Linguistics

A new journal devoted to the native languages of northwestern North America has come into existence. It is published only in electronic form: http://www.sfu.ca/nwjl/.

Witsuwit'en Grammar

Sharon Hargus' book Witsuwit'en Grammar has been published by the University of British Columbia Press.

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• Culture and History
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• Links
• Our Mandate
• Publications
• Resources and Services Available at YDLI
• Yinka Déné Declaration on Education, Language and Culture
• Eulogy for the late Mary John, Sr.

For information about other First Nations languages of British Columbia, about the First Nations languages of British Columbia in general, and about endangered languages, language maintenance, and related topics, go to the First Nations Languages of British Columbia web site.

Nous sommes désolés de ne pas avoir tout traduit en franç;ais. Néanmoins, certains renseignments sont disponibles en français. Cet index en français.

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Revised 2008-09-11

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