![]() ![]() ![]() “I never studied linguistics, don’t have any teacher training, my parents weren’t speakers,” he said in his office at an adult language school he founded about two decades ago in his community, the Six Nations of the Grand River territory, southwest of Toronto. Maracle has become a champion of Mohawk, and is helping revive it and other Indigenous languages, both in Canada and elsewhere, through his transformation of teaching methods. Maracle and many other Indigenous people without their languages. More than a century of attempts by Canada’s government to stamp out Indigenous cultures had left Mr. ![]() SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER, Ontario - When Brian Maracle returned in his mid-40s to the Mohawk community near Toronto that he had left when he was just 5, he didn’t have a job and knew almost no one there.īut perhaps the biggest challenge facing him was that he neither spoke nor understood much Kanyen’keha, the Mohawk language. ![]()
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