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Our Living Languages

May-June 2018

New B.C. museum exhibit seeks to preserve Indigenous languages

Inside the First Peoples' Our Living Languages exhibit at the Royal B.C. Museum

Trisha Cull

Language is a living, breathing phenomenon that informs culture. Individual and societal identities are forged through the spoken and written word. It is a unifying force, “an invisible line from the heart into the past,” as Art Napoleon, a First Nations cultural educator of the Cree Nation, describes it. Warm greetings in a variety of […] More »