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Self-governance VS Linguistic Peace among the Canadian Inuit
Michelle Daveluy
University of AlbertaEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
10th LinguaPax CongressBarcelona, May 2004
Canadian InuitGreenland InuitAlaskan InuitRussian InuitOther Arctic people
Legend
Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights
Inuit Circumpolar Conference
Ottawa, Canada
Carl Chr. Olsen, linguist Nuuk
http://canada.gc.ca/canadiana/lmap_e.html
Nunavik
http://www.nunavik-tourism.com
Stats Canada (CBC North, 21 janvier 2003)
+/- 45 000 Inuit in Canada
+20, 000 in Nunavut
-10,000 in Nunavik
James Bay Agreement
http://www.ebenhopson.com/czm/1977cz/Dec1977/10.jpg
Dorais 1996
Despite centuries of contact and increasing pressure from English and French,
almost 99% of the Inuit population in Nunavik will, it is estimated,
continue to speak Inuktitut
as a home language all their lives.
Law 101Preamble
Title I : Status of the French language
Title II : Linguistic officialization, toponymy and francization
Title III : The Office québécois de la langue française
Title IV : The Conseil de la langue française
Title V : Penal provisions and other sanctions
Title VI : Transitional and miscellaneous provisions
Schedule
Dorais 1979: 76
The new Provincial policy will probably do some good to the language of the Inuit: it shall be taught in all Northern Quebec schools. Its status, however, will be strictly local. Both levels of government discourage the emergence of a pan-Inuit or pan-aboriginal nationalism. Northen Quebec people are forced to become either English Canadian or French Québécois Inuit.
Nunavut
3 official languages
Inuktitut, English, French
Bathurst Mandate
“…fully functional bilingual society, in Inuktitut and English, respectful and committed to the needs and rights of French speakers, with a growing ability to participate in French.”
March 21, 2003
French DEA reopens debate on Bill 1
Education bill still in violation of the Charter, chair says
PATRICIA D’SOUZA
The Government of Nunavut’s education bill is still vulnerable to legal challenge, despite amendments submitted last month by representatives from the GN and the Francophone Association of Nunavut, the chair of Iqaluit’s French District Education Authority says
http://www.nunatsiaq.com
February 15, 2002
Iqaluit pharmacy ahead of the game
Nunavut language commissioner recommends bilingual instructions for prescriptions, but that’s nothing new to Valupharm
http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut020215/news/nunavut/20215_8.html
Report of the Nunavik Commission March 2001
Recommendation no. 9 Language and culture(Pg. 31, 2001)
9.3.2 The predominant use of Inuttitut in the operation of the Nunavik Government and other public institutions of Nunavik;
9.3.2 la prédominance de l’inuttitut dans les activités du gouvernement du Nunavut et des autres institutions publiques du Nunavik;
Recommandation nº 9 La langue et la culture(Pg. 31, 2001)