VANCOUVER—A 15-year-old high school student in British Columbia is turning to technology to help address a decades-old problem — how to revive an Indigenous language nearly lost to the residential school system. Tessa Erickson of the Nak’azdli Whut’en First Nation is creating an app and organizing a summer camp to help get younger people in her central B.C. community speaking the Nak’azdli dialect of the Dakelh language. The Grade 10 student said she’s been told generations since then were afraid to teach the language to their children. Bringing them back is an explicitly activist and political act, and one that is key to reconciliation, he said.

Source: thestar January 07, 2018 15:33 UTC