The Usage of Indigenous Languages as a Tool for Meaningful Engagement With Northern Indigenous Governments and Communities

Jenanne Ferguson and Evgeniia (Jen) Sidorova
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Jenanne Ferguson: MacEwan University
Evgeniia (Jen) Sidorova: University of Calgary

SPP Research Papers, 2023, vol. 16, issue 12

Abstract: The Canadian Northern Corridor (CNC) program integrates formal academic research and a strategy of engagement with potentially impacted communities (Fellows et al. 2020). Finding common ground among Indigenous peoples, governments and industry on engagement and consultation practices is imperative to the future of resource development and the Canadian economy, and ultimately to the reconciliation of the relationships between Indigenous Peoples and Canada (Boyd and Lorefice 2018). In this paper, we focus on language, stressing that languages are more than just tools. Rather, all communicative systems also hold both individual and cultural identities, histories and memory, and encode knowledge in specific ways.

Date: 2023
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