The federal government says it is investing $39.4 million to support Indigenous languages in the territories.
The funding is to go to communities, organizations and governments to reclaim, revitalize, maintain and strengthen the languages.
The First Nation says the funding will help it deliver language and culture classes and camps, as well as develop lesson plans, books, videos and reference documents in the Wiiliideh language. “We feel that the elders are lonely because they've got nobody to talk to in their language, so we're trying to fix that,” he said.Edward Sangris said one hurdle is that Wiiliideh is not one of the N.W.T.'s 11 official languages, nine of which are Indigenous.
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