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Across the N.W.T. elders and other mentors are helping adult language learners revive their Indigenous language through one-on-one immersion. It's proving to be a healing for some residential school survivors, building fluency, family connection, well-being and cultural pride.
Westin Sutherland from Peguis First Nation is teaching N.W.T. language holders and learners how they can work with Elders and technology to transform cartoons and television to celebrate and promote their own languages.
The number of fluent language speakers of all Indigenous languages in the N.W.T. has been dropping consistently for the past several decades. The territory's Mentor-Apprentice Program is trying to reverse that trend.