‘Language is identity’: Indigenous Ontario legislator to make history at Queen’s Park | Unpublished
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Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Liam Casey
Publication Date: May 26, 2024 - 09:34

‘Language is identity’: Indigenous Ontario legislator to make history at Queen’s Park

May 26, 2024
Decades after being punished in a residential school for speaking his own language, Sol Mamakwa will hold the powerful to account at Ontario’s legislature in the very same language past governments tried to bury.On Tuesday, Mamakwa, the only First Nation legislator at Queen’s Park, will rise in the legislative chamber – with his mother, sister, brothers, friends and elders watching from the gallery – and ask a question in Anishininiimowin, known in English as Oji-Cree.


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