[NEWS] Five First Nations links: residential schools, Mohawk, native languages, Newtok, Métis claims

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• Mario Canseco at the National Observer reports on a poll suggesting that Canadians generally are becoming more aware of the residential schools, though knowledge is uneven and far from uniform.


• Six Nations Polytechnic has created a new Mohawk language learning app intended to help that Iroquoian language thrive again. Global News reports.


• Chelsea Vowel makes a plea in Chatelaine for Canada to protect its indigenous languages, as is their right.


• The Alaskan village of Newtok is literally sliding into an adjacent river, victim of (among other things) climate change. No one has been helping since the 1950s.


• In eastern Canada, many people are starting to identify themselves as Métis without necessarily having verifiable Métis or Native ancestry. This can have significant consequences, financial and otherwise. The National Post reports.