Evening Language Class

Captíkʷł 3 Storytelling presentations



Syilx Language House completes evaluation films each year.
Two films in Year 1, 2015/16: Year 1 immersion program oral assessments; and an Elder recording evening where we collected 1.5 hours of narrative. One film in Year 2, 2016/17. 
One filme in Year 4: Captíkʷł 3 Storytelling. More to come.   ​

Syilx Language House – Learning by doing – Spring 2016 – Year 1 
uploaded Aug 12, 2016

Syilx Language House - Elders Storytelling Evening Feb. 23, 2016
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_1jS4FH4r8
uploaded Aug. 12, 2016
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Syilx Language House - Learning by teaching - Year 2
uploaded August 30, 2017

Year 3 Video by Shaw TV with learners in 3rd year of 4 year program
Tamie Williams and Doug Brown. uploaded March 4, 2018

Year 4 Captíkʷł 3 Storytelling film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxH_tJ_e_Ng.  
uploaded ​Jan 2, 2019

Language House BLOG by Sk̓awilx & Qʷyqʷʕayáx̌n

10 Days of Winter song in Nsyilxcn by SLH 4th year students
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRFhucSvGS4
uploaded Dec 19, 2018

SLH in the media

Syilx Language Program comes to West Kelowna - Kelowna Capital News 
Twila Amato, November 2019. Interviews with Krista Lindley, Michele Kay Johnson

Syilx Language House celebrates special milestone as graduation gets closer
​Oliver Chronicle. Dec. 27, 2017

​CBC Radio class interview 

Media from Čaptíkʷł 3 film Release, Penticton Western News, Jan 3, 2019
Critically Endangered Language Being Brought Back to Life (interview with Michele Johnson)
https://www.revelstokereview.com/community/critically-endangered-language-being-brought-back-to-life/ 

Media www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/245994/Saving-a-culture
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Language revitalization links

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN 2007)

Indigenous Languages Recognition, Preservation & Revitalization Report (FPCC 2016) 

Task force on Aboriginal Cultures Report (2005)
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Report on the status of BC First Nations Languages (FPCC 2014)

Learning Tlingit through Story (Paul Creek model of writing curriculum) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NdG-VePBHo&t=2s