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Carrier Linguistic Committee
The Carrier Linguistic Society (CLS), previously known as the Carrier Linguistic Committee, is a First Nations Organization that was incorporated into the Societies Act of British Columbia in 1973. It maintains both an online and physical presence, and is based in Fort St. James in British Columbia. Upon establishment, the Carrier Linguistic Society also included a list of the official aims of the CLS. # To promote literacy programs among the people of the Carrier Nation. # To produce literacy materials such as primers, readers, workbooks, teacher's guides, supplements, visual aids, maps songs, dictionaries, histories, legends, culture. # To train teachers and develop an ongoing program of teacher training which could in time involve other language groups in B.C. # To create professional positions through teacher training and creative workshops. # To motivate Carrier young people towards higher education and profession. # To preserve the Athabaskan culture evidenced among the Carri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrier Language
The Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ) or Carrier language is a Northern Athabaskan language. It is named after the Dakelh people, a First Nations people of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, for whom Carrier has been a common English name derived from French explorers naming of the people. Dakelh people speak two related languages. One, Babine-Witsuwit'en is sometimes referred to as ''Northern Carrier''. The other includes what are sometimes referred to as ''Central Carrier'' and ''Southern Carrier''. Etymology of 'Carrier' The name 'Carrier' is a translation of the Sekani name 'aɣele' "people who carry things around on their backs", due to the fact that the first Europeans to learn of the Carrier, the Northwest Company explorers led by Alexander Mackenzie, first passed through the territory of the Carriers' Sekani neighbours. The received view of the origin of the Sekani name is that it refers to the distinctive Carrier mortuary practice in which a widow carried her h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nak'azdli Band
Nak'azdli Band is a Dakelh First Nation band with a main community located within the village of Fort St. James, British Columbia Fort St. James is a district municipality and former fur trading post in northern central British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the south-eastern shore of Stuart Lake in the Omineca Country, at the northern terminus of Highway 27, which co .... The nation has 16 reserves totalling 1,458 hectares, and approximately 1977 members living both on - and off reserve. The Nak'azdli Band chief is Aileen Prince. References Further reading * ''Nak'azdli t'enne Yahulduk''/Nak'azdli Elders Speak, edited by Lillian Sam. (Penticton, B.C: Theytus Books ltd, 2001), External linksNak'azdli Band website {{FirstNations-stub Dakelh governments Omineca Country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Peoples' Cultural Council
The First Peoples’ Cultural Council (FPCC) is a First Nations governed Crown Corporation of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is based in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia on Tsartlip First Nation. The organization was formerly known as the First Peoples' Heritage, Language and Culture Council, but shortened its name in 2012. Established in 1990 through thFirst Peoples' Heritage, Language and Culture Act FPCC has been offering services and programs to support Indigenous language, arts, and culture revitalization in British Columbia. The mandate of the organization is to: * Provide funding to First Nations cultural and language programs * Support and advise government and First Nations leadership on initiatives, programs and services related to First Nations arts, language and culture * Provide services and resources to help revitalize the cultural legacy of First Nations people * Advocate for First Nations heritage and culture Base funding for FPCC is provided through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FirstVoices
FirstVoices is a web-based project to support Indigenous peoples' teaching and archiving of language and culture. It is administered by the First Peoples' Cultural Council in British Columbia (B.C.). FirstVoices was initially launched in 2003 to aid in the preservation of the remaining 34 Indigenous languages in B.C. It provides a space for Indigenous community language teams to archive their languages by recording and uploading words, phrases, songs and stories to a secure, centralized database. Some archives are publicly accessible, but others are password-protected at the request of the individual language community. FirstVoices hosts 47 (36 public and 11 private) language archives in B.C. and also supports 70 First Nations communities in Canada, the US and Australia. Content is entirely controlled and managed by community language administrators. FirstVoices provides the following tools so that each archive can be customized to the languages it serves: * An alphabet provides th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OCLC
OCLC, Inc., doing business as OCLC, See also: is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large". It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, then became the Online Computer Library Center as it expanded. In 2017, the name was formally changed to OCLC, Inc. OCLC and thousands of its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog (OPAC) in the world. OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries pay (around $217.8 million annually in total ) for the many different services it offers. OCLC also maintains the Dewey Decimal Classification system. History OCLC began in 1967, as the Ohio College Library Center, through a collaboration of university presidents, vice presidents, and library directors who wanted to create a cooperative, computerized network for librar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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