Home / Our Past, Our Language - Secwepemc: Finding Our Talk, Season 2
Catalogue Number: MUME60
Producer: Mushkeg Media Inc.
Producing Agencies: Mushkeg Media Inc.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2002
Running Time: 22:00
Our Past, Our Language - Secwepemc: Finding Our Talk, Season 2
This title is a part of the series Finding Our Talk, Season 2Catalogue Number: MUME60
Producer: Mushkeg Media Inc.
Producing Agencies: Mushkeg Media Inc.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2002
Running Time: 22:00
A full language immersion program can effectively save a dying language. We visit the Shuswap Nation in BC’s interior to see one of Canada’s more successful immersion programs. Here how a Nursery Program grew to become a high school. We will also look at two influential people who have worked hard studying, writing and teaching the language, and learn about their struggles in trying to express the importance of language to their own children. Background: The Secwepemc Nation is located in South-Central British Columbia; they are among the leading groups of language preservation.