[NEWS] Five First Nations links: Anishaabemowin, Mexico, Australia, Vanuatu, Tsimshian

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• Journalist Duncan McCue writes about his efforts to learn the Anishaabemowin language of his ancestors, over at CBC.


• The Inter Press Service looks at indigenous language revival movements among in Mexico.


• The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports on the perhaps surprisingly intimate relationship over time between Indigenous Australians and Chinese migrants in Australia.


• Some Aborigines were deported to Vanuatu in the 19th century, part of the "repatriation" of the blackbirded. Some of their descendants have recently returned to Queensland to try to connect to their local kin. SBS reports.


• A Tsimshian woman from Alaska, active in the language revival movement among the Tsimshian of British Columbia, is fighting efforts to deport her from Canada--or, rather, from the Canadian portion of the Tsimshian homeland. The National Post reports.