AI is Helping Bring Indigenous Languages Back from the Brink
For decades, efforts to revitalize Canada’s Indigenous languages through education have met with mixed success. The goal of developing speakers who “carry the soul of the language” remains unfulfilled, said Sara Child, a member of the Kwakiutl Nation and Indigenous education facilitator at North Island College in Courtenay on Vancouver Island. Kwak’wala, the language of her people, is “trapped” in systems of education that still operate on a colonial framework, she added.