Language and Technology

The Mi'kmaq language is very important because it is unique to our culture and beliefs. It is imperative that we encourage our children to speak and write in their native tongue. Our history, our culture, every aspect of our lives is passed on through our language from generation to generation through the oral tradition. There are also petroglyphs and hieroglyphics. These are used to highlight an individuals' great accomplishments or depict an historical event that they feel needs to be recorded. But most of their stories are done in the oral tradition so that the story can be told over and over again, to ensure that it will not be forgotten. The Mi'kmaq language is unique, things that are animate and inanimate in the English language, is not in the Mi'kmaq language. Words/objects in our Native language are considered connected and having a spirit of their own and can be spoken of as animate, although they are inanimate.
There is a possibility of losing our language altogether. We must take some measures to ensure that this does not happen. I believe that writing it down and creating an on-line course would guarantee that our children would be able to learn it, as well as other people who are interested in learning the language themselves.