March 2023 - ELAN

ELAN News, April 2023

Letter from the Executive Director Hello Spring, I hope all our ELAN members are happily enjoying the longer days, the stronger sunshine and the feeling of hope that surviving yet another winter bring us all. After all, if you can…

Creative Care for Ourselves and Our Communities:

A workshop series with CHSSN to support artists' mental health The Creative Care project aims to support the mental health and well-being of artists in Quebec through a series of workshops and events offered by health professionals…

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.

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