Photo: Cole Burston / AFPSource: AFPShe said the university's Bachelor of Arts in nehiyawewin (Cree language) has helped her to reconnect with her roots. 'Very challenging' languages to learnSherri Chisan, president of University nuhelt'ine tahiyots'i nistameyimakanak Blue Quills, poses in a classroom at the First Nation university in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada. "But their children suffered anyway because they don't have the language," university president Sherri Chisan said. Indigenous languages were once banned at this former residential school turned First Nation university, in St Paul, Alberta, Canada. Difficult to translateCree is the most widely spoken Indigenous language in Canada, according to a 2016 census.

Source: Daily Nation July 21, 2022 13:04 UTC