Fist Nation Help Desk - links and aps

Many great apps to help with language learning

http://firstnationhelp.com/links.php

Wanting to learn phrases, words and expressions more easily? Check out the FNHD page, and scroll down the left-hand side to see many apps you can choose from: 

• L'nui'suti- Mi'kmaq Words and Phrases
• Tal-Tluen? -Mi'kmaq Phrasebook App
• Nilu'nal -Mi'kmaq Recipes
• Alasutmaqn- Mi'kmaq Prayers and Songs
• Ktapekiaqnn- Mi'kmaw Immersion- Songs and Poems
• ESK Sight Words- Mi'kmaw Immersion- Sight Words Flash Cards
• Astue'kl- Mi'kmaw Opposites Game
• L'nu Stickers- iOS Keyboard Stickers
• Wowkwis aq Ka'qaquj- Mi'kmaq Story Book
• Mnumkwej Na'kwekm- Mi'kmaq Story Book
• Antle Netake'k!- Mi'kmaq version of a Robert Munsch classic
• Antle Netake'k! for iPhone- Mi'kmaq version of a Robert Munsch classic
• Puktewit- Mi'kmaq Story Book
• Wen Wikit?- Animals
• Malia'n aqq Wiklatmu'j- Mi'kmaw Story Book
• Ksalultes Iapjiw- Mi'kmaq version of a Robert Munsch classic
• Ta'n Wejiaq Epekwitk- Mi'kmaq Story Book
• Mi'kmaw Colouring- Learn Mi'kmaw colours by colouring scenes
• Antle Ewe'kitek Wipit- Mi'kmaq version of a Robert Munsch classic
• Kaplie'l Naji-e'sue'ket- Mi'kmaw Story Book
• Ki'kwa'ju aqq Muin- Mi'kmaw Story Book
• A'tukwen- Mi'kmaq History Month 2014
• Elatikl- Matching game featuring the art of Gerald Gloade

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Honouring the ancestors through an ancient art form

Birchbark quillwork - new art with traditional techniques

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-birch-bark-harvest-1.5197546

"An Island Mi'kmaq artist is doing her part to honour her ancestors and cultural values through an ancient art form using birchbark in her quillwork. Melissa Peter-Paul started doing quillwork in 2014, but it was the work of her great-great-grandmother that first got her interested. "She has a lot of her pieces in the archives today," she said. "I've been able to look at all of them and get a lot of my inspiration." Peter-Paul incorporates porcupine quills, sweet grass, spruce root and birchbark in her quillwork.

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I AM L’NU (Je suis Mi'gmaq)

Naomi Condo and identity

http://www.wapikoni.ca/films/im-lnu-je-suis-migmaq#lid=828f2693-0c4d-402a-bfc9-19ccf0bcdc06&videotype=vimeo

Naomi, mother of two, unpacks stereotypes about Native women and claims her identity as a proud and strong Mi'gmaw person.

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Listuguj Mi'gmaq Legends

 Grade 7 students share Mi'gmaq legends and cultural stories

http://www.wapikoni.ca/movies/listuguj-migmaq-legends

"An elder visits Grade 7 students at Alaqsite'w Gitpu School in Listuguj to share Mi'gmaq legends and cultural stories.  The students then narrate the stories in their own words, combined with a mix of animated drawings, real life footage and homemade sound effects." 

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Mi'kmaq speakers create new immersion curriculum

The Alaqsite'w Gitpu School offers a Mi'kmaq immersion program
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/listuguj-mi-kmaq-lola-vicaire-indigenous-language-vicky-metallic-1.5181411

"Alaqsite'w Gitpu School on the Listuguj First Nation has been offering a Mi'kmaq immersion program for students from kindergarten to Grade 4 since 2002 and is now taking the next step and developing its own curriculum. Since September, Mary Ann Metallic, 66, has been working with a group of Mi'kmaq speakers in an effort to improve their fluency, along with their reading and writing."

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