Publications

Publication details [#45906]

Burnaby, Barbara and David Philpott. 2007. Innu Oral Dominance Meets Schooling: New Data on Outcomes. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 28 (4) : 270–289.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aboriginal | language dominance | language use | orality | school

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper discusses evidence of almost complete failure of Western schooling for the Canadian Aboriginal Innu. It also briefly describes the unique history of the Innu of Labrador as compared to Canadian Aboriginal groups in general.