b'AROUND TURTLE ISLANDGoogle Earth project helps raise awareness and preserve Indigenous languages Google Earth users are now able to hear phrases and traditional songs spoken by Indigenous language speakers from around the world.To honour the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages, the project, called Celebrating Indigenous Languages, is designed to honour and share Indigenous languages.Google Earth launched the interactive project August 9 featuring 55 languages from 27 different countries. The project invites users to explore the globe while listening to audio clips from Indigenous language speakers, as well as written anecdotes describing why the preservation and revitalization of their culture and language is important.Some languages featured include Kanienkha (Mohawk), Inuktitut, Hulquminum, Northern Plains Cree, Woodland Cree andFormer Day Swampy Cree. The project can be found in Voyager, the educational storytelling platformSchool students on Google Earth. google.com/earth/ Former Day Hear Indigenous speakers talk about the importance of preserving Indigenous languagesSchool students in seven different languages in AFNs magazine, The Circle, at afn.ca/Home/Bill S-3 could extend Indian statuseligibility to hundreds of thousands of people Between 270,000 and 450,000 individualsBill S-3 received royal assent over aIndian Act. We must move beyond the could be newly entitled to registrationyear ago.Indian Act by asserting our jurisdiction under the Indian Act over the next decade,The issue stems from the fact that untiland creating our own citizenship laws. At according to the federal government. 1985, Indigenous women who marriedeach step, First Nations governments must The federal government extendednon-Indigenous men lost their Indianhave access to the requisite fiscal, land and eligibility for Indian status in August 2019status, while Indigenous men who marriedother resources to provide the basics of to potentially hundreds of thousandsnon-Indigenous women passed theirgovernment and essential services to all of people by bringing into force theIndian status to their wives.of our citizens, said Assembly of First final provisions of legislation aimed atUltimately, we all know that the pathNations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.removing sex discrimination from theto gender equality and the path toFor more info on eligibility,Indian Act. self-determination does not lie in thego to aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/24 The Circle Winter Issue 1 2019'