Miriame Giroux

University of Victoria community based Indigenous Language Revitalization Bachelor of Education program.  »Our Indigenous language revitalization programs, offered in collaboration with the Department of Linguistics and the Division of Continuing Studies, seek to support communities to retain and revive their own language. While we offer on-campus Indigenous Education courses, we also offer our programs directly […]

Indigenous Education And Native Studies in Denendeh. A university on the land. Land based university program that takes its organizing principles and knowledge largely from indigenous knowledge. Dechinta works with works elders, community members/experts, cultural teachers to offer university courses that value indigenous knowledge as much as academic.

Fostering indigenous leadership, values and skills through cultural initiatives. Dene Nahjo is a Dene Collective based in Denendeh. Fostering indigenous leadership, values, and skills through cultural resurgance initiatives. Dene Nahjo believes the solutions to problems we see in communities are rooted in the teachings of our ancestors. They emphasize and encourage the revitalization of the […]

High school students spend 3 weeks at a camp on Willow Lake to complete an experiential science course and learn traditional skills and language on the land.  »This year’s camp took place from Aug. 27 to Sept. 1 at Willow Lake, Northwest Territories. Twelve youth aged 11 to 16 from across the communities of Dehcho […]

Dene Kede encompasses the language, culture and the way in which five Dene nations view the world. In K to 6, themes are used to reinforce and teach the four concepts central to Dene perspective: the Spiritual World, the Land, the Self and the People, while grades 7 to 9 employ a modular approach. The […]