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In their 1990 report Towards Linguistic Justice for First Nations, The Assembly of First Nations Education Secretariat reports on ‘… research carried out in beginning to develop a long term plan for revitalization of Aboriginal languages’ (p. i). With all First Nations in Canada surveyed, respondents from 151 First Nations showed that 25% of bands have declining languages, 30% have endangered languages (where less than 50% of adults speak their language and there are few, if any, younger speakers) and 11% have critical languages (those with less than 10 speakers in the community) (p. i). Assembly of First Nations states that ‘It is apparent that the vast majority of First Nations are relying on the school system to instruct their children in their Aboriginal language’ (p. 36).
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Heimbecker, C. (1997). Bilingual Education for Indigenous Groups in Canada. In: Cummins, J., Corson, D. (eds) Bilingual Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4531-2_6
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