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From the Canadian Press

Most of Canada's 61 aboriginal languages continue decades-long slide

INUVIK, N.W.T. - The lively five-year-olds in Sandra Ipana's language class chant through the calendar in Inuvialuktun.

From the Globe and Mail

'To forget and forgive'

JOE FRIESEN - January 15, 2008

ROSEAU RIVER, Manitoba — Shirley Littlejohn lives on the Roseau River First Nation, about 80 kilometres south of Winnipeg.

She was born in 1947 on a reserve that sits in the flood plain between the Red and Roseau Rivers, just east of the highway that runs from Winnipeg to the U.S. border.

AFN Press Release ...

AFN National Chief says Booming Population of First Nations People Requires Urgent Government Action and Immediate New Investments

OTTAWA, Jan. 15 - Today's release of the 2006 Census by Statistics Canada indicates that the population of First Nations people has increased by 29 per cent in the last decade.