November 5, 2019, Vancouver, B.C. – The First Nations Education Foundation (FNEF) announced today that they have agreed to keep the FNEF Language Revitalization Pole in Port Alberni in response to increasing community calls for it to remain in the city. The carving phase of the project is approaching completion and the next phase, in […]
Language Revitalization Pole carving “suspended” due to current funding gap: Group issues urgent appeal “… we’re hoping Canadians, and Canadian corporations, will answer the call to “Raise the Pole” and help us raise the $50,000 we need to get us through the summer to the point in the fall where further funding will hopefully be […]
“This great cedar is about 800 years old; before this town even existed. But when this was a seedling, our creator knows the destinies of everything that exists on this earth, and he knew what this was going to be for, way before it even started growing.” – Harry Lucas, Nuu-chah-nulth language-speaker and Elder – April […]
We have some great news to report about the work we’ve been doing over the past several months with Six Factor, our FNEF technology partner. Six Factor is western Canada’s Leading Google Cloud Partner, and together we are ready to field test the first generation of our FNEF Indigenous language app for smartphone, tablet, and desktop learning. There are some key […]
We would like to thank the family of the late Art (Arthur) Thompson, a Nuu-chah-nulth (Ditidaht) artist, for granting us permission to use Thunderbird as our First Nations Education Foundation logo. Thompson was a fierce advocate for the rights of residential school victims and survivors. We are deeply honoured by this gesture and eternally grateful. […]
Thank you to Phil Fontaine, Les Doiron, and Rhonda Knockwood for the meeting today and the great discussion on language revitalization project strategies. Visionaries All! FNEF Please follow and like us:
On November 30th 2016, the First Nations Education Foundation (FNEF) facilitated the signing of an MOU with Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ Government (YG) laying out the intent for a landmark Language Revitalization pilot project to preserve and then revitalize their traditional language of Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Barkley dialect. Once successful, this process will be offered to Nations throughout BC and […]