Ann Terese Doucette is the Marketing Specialist, Indigenous Affairs at Cape Breton University’s Unama’ki College and is a member of the Membertou.
Even after 600 years of contact and decades of culture and language suppression, Mi’kmaw people have managed to maintain their language and culture. Within Mi’kma’ki, even after residential schools, we are fortunate enough to have younger people who are still first language Mi’kmaw speakers and this is amazing.
“There were originally eighteen Eastern Algonquian languages spoken along the east coast of North America,” according to Dr. Stephanie Inglis, a linguist, Professor of Mi’kmaq Studies and the Dir ...
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