8. Indigenizing Language Policy in Canada: Redressing Racial Hierarchies
This chapter addresses what is at stake linguistically and politically in Canada for First Nations, Inuit and Metis in the context of language policy, revitalization and maintenance. The context in question is not only one of an officially bilingual country, where French and English-language rights,...
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Presses de l’Université de Montréal
2017
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| Online Access: | http://books.openedition.org/pum/3483 |
| Summary: | This chapter addresses what is at stake linguistically and politically in Canada for First Nations, Inuit and Metis in the context of language policy, revitalization and maintenance. The context in question is not only one of an officially bilingual country, where French and English-language rights, along with official multiculturalism, have become entrenched both legally and institutionally. Furthermore, it is one in which processes of assimilation, dispossession and displacement of First Na. |
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