This month, Ingrid Kritsch will receive an honorary degree from the University of Alberta for her decades of work with the Gwich'in to document and archive their place names so that they can be preserved for future generations.
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Two new collections have been inscribed in the Canada Memory of the World Register that highlight the preservation and transmission of Indigenous cultures and knowledge. The Canada Memory of the World Register was created in 2017 to promote significant documentary heritage from the first settling of the land by Indigenous Peoples to the present. It is part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World program which showcases the most meaningful documents in humanity’s heritage and history.
Five Gwich’in men model replicas of 19th C. traditional caribou skin clothing at the unveiling of a knowledge repatriation project. (Tom Andrews)
Gwich’in language classes are continuing between provinces and territories through Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Agnes Mitchell, Gwich in elder, teacher, mentor with Crystal Fraser s daughter Quinn, when she was 3-years-old. Quinn has been learning the language for three years now.(submitted by Crystal Fraser)
Gwich in language classes are continuing between provinces and territories through Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Crystal Fraser began learning Gwich in in 2018 with her daughter Quinn, who is now five-years-old. About three years ago when when she started talking, I had this sudden realization that this is really the best time to teach her our our language, said Fraser.