Canada’s Native Languages: The Right of First Nations to Educate Their Children in Their Own Languages
Canada used to consider itself not only a bilingual, but also a bicultural country.1 Biculturalism was based on the idea that Canada had two founding cultures, the French-language culture dominant in Quebec and the English-language culture dominant everywhere else, with French and English minorities...
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ftunivalbertaojs:oai:ejournals.library.ualberta.ca:article/11063 2023-05-15T16:15:58+02:00 Canada’s Native Languages: The Right of First Nations to Educate Their Children in Their Own Languages Leitch, David 2011-07-24 application/pdf http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/constitutional_forum/article/view/11063 eng eng Centre for Constitutional Studies http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/constitutional_forum/article/view/11063/8503 Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel; Vol 15, No 1, 2 & 3 (2006); (2006) No 3: 107-120 1927-4165 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2011 ftunivalbertaojs 2016-05-08T20:41:33Z Canada used to consider itself not only a bilingual, but also a bicultural country.1 Biculturalism was based on the idea that Canada had two founding cultures, the French-language culture dominant in Quebec and the English-language culture dominant everywhere else, with French and English minorities scattered across the country. This view of Canada obviously failed to recognize both the Aboriginal cultures that existed prior to European contact and the cultures of those immigrants who came to Canada with no knowledge of French or English or with knowledge of those languages but otherwise distinguishable culture. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of Alberta: Journal Hosting Canada |
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Canada used to consider itself not only a bilingual, but also a bicultural country.1 Biculturalism was based on the idea that Canada had two founding cultures, the French-language culture dominant in Quebec and the English-language culture dominant everywhere else, with French and English minorities scattered across the country. This view of Canada obviously failed to recognize both the Aboriginal cultures that existed prior to European contact and the cultures of those immigrants who came to Canada with no knowledge of French or English or with knowledge of those languages but otherwise distinguishable culture. |
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Canada’s Native Languages: The Right of First Nations to Educate Their Children in Their Own Languages |
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Canada’s Native Languages: The Right of First Nations to Educate Their Children in Their Own Languages |
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Canada’s Native Languages: The Right of First Nations to Educate Their Children in Their Own Languages |
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Canada’s Native Languages: The Right of First Nations to Educate Their Children in Their Own Languages |
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canada’s native languages: the right of first nations to educate their children in their own languages |
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