New Kahnawake project aims to protect Mohawk language
Staff at a newspaper in Kahnawá:ke, a First Nations community south of Montreal, are going a bit further with responsibility to their readers and have launched a project they believe will help save one critical aspect of their culture.
“Those stories are published and told by community members and elders with specific knowledge about history, culture, the language itself.” explained Rosenfield at the newspaper’s office.The purpose of the project is to help teach, and promote pride in, Kanien’kéha or Mohawk, according to Steve Bonspiel, the paper’s editor-publisher, who came up with the idea for the initiative.
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