Whose Land vs Heritage Michif To Go

Explore Indigenous territories, treaties, languages and communities with Whose Land. Use the interactive map, search for a place or Nation, or choose your current location to learn more about the land around you. Browse community information, Indigenous businesses, residential and boarding school locations, leadership stories and territories by city. Learn through educational videos, frequently asked questions and lesson plans. Explore land acknowledgement resources, create a personal draft, and share information with others. Whose Land 3.0 brings a redesigned native experience to iPhone and iPad, with English and French interfaces, dark mode, accessible text and controls, and faster search using saved place results and local postal-code data. Recently accessed content is cached for reuse; an internet connection is needed for content that has not been saved and for online media. Whose Land is an educational starting point for learning, dialogue and further research. Mapped areas are approximations and do not represent definitive or legal boundaries. Data sources and credits are available in the app.

Heritage Michif To Go features over 11,500 translations and audio pronunciations by Michif-language expert Norman Fleury, including over 500 phrases. A search tool allows users to look up English words to find the Michif translations with accompanying narration. A “Favourites” feature allows users to quickly access frequently used words and phrases. A “History” tab tracks words and phrases recently accessed. Users are also able to share any entry to a variety of social platforms. Perhaps only 5-10% of Métis people can speak any of the Michif languages. Most of these speakers are elderly, well-beyond the age of teachers and school resource personnel, and in many cases, isolated from other speakers. These Michif languages are critically endangered. At risk is our ways of communicating, our unique worldviews, and cultural knowledge. The time for language resources such as Heritage Michif To Go is now. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages “in order to raise awareness of them, not only to benefit the people who speak these languages, but also for others to appreciate the important contribution they make to our world’s rich cultural diversity.” In Canada, a bill was tabled on February 5, 2019 entitled the Indigenous Language Act. The act was created to support, promote, reclaim, revitalize, maintain, and strengthen the use of Indigenous languages. The Gabriel Dumont Institute is firmly committed to creating resources such as Heritage Michif to Go, which supports this initiative. This project was developed by the Gabriel Dumont Institute, and acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada for the production of this resource.