Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Book Launch (Living Language Rights)
Schedule
Wed Nov 12 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB
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Join Lorena Sekwan Fontaine for the launch of Living Language Rights: Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education (University of Manitoba Press). Hosted by Shelagh Rogers, this event will feature a conversation with Verna J. Kirkness.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781772841145/l-sekwan-fontaine/living-language-rights
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/nDWAoAt7QdI
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Continuing the language revitalization work of Survivors, Lorena Sekwan Fontaine’s groundbreaking Living Language Rights advocates for the education of Indigenous children in their ancestral languages. Indigenous language transmission is not only culturally significant, but also a constitutionally protected right that Canada has a duty to uphold. Equal parts personal and scholarly, Living Language Rights highlights the sacred responsibility within First Nations law to preserve and transmit language.
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine (Maiigun Geezhik Iqway) is Cree and Anishinaabe and a member of Sagkeeng First Nation. She has appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples as an expert witness on the Indigenous Languages Act. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Chair and the Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal.
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