The Saving is in the doing

As in speak it and write it…

This June, York University student Fred Metallic hopes to make a bit of Canadian university history. That’s when he plans to complete the first draft of his PhD dissertation, tentatively titled “Mi’gmawei Mawio’mi: Goqwei Wejguaqamultigw?” (The English working title is “Reclaiming Mi’kmaq History and Politics: Living our Responsibilities.”) Written entirely in Mi’kmaq, it will be the first PhD dissertation in Canada completed in an aboriginal language without translation. Read @

To lose a language is to loss a hundred or more generations of accumulated knowledge, meaning, and ways of being.To lose the language of ones forefathers must be a terrible thing.

Good on you Fred Metallic in fact mawiglu’sit