New channel aims to revitalize endangered Indigenous languages

By  John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter  Lisa Perley-Dutcher isn’t big on TV and doesn’t normally turn on the set. But she says it was nice to come home recently after a long workday and see some faces on the screen that looked like her own. “I’m getting supper ready, and watching TV, you know, and I’m thinking, ‘wow, they’re really showing a lot of Native people on TV these days,” said the teacher at Kehkimin Wolastoqey language immersion school in Fredericton. “More than ever before. I’m thinking this, right? And I mentioned it to my husband, and he says, ‘Dear, we’re watching APTN’.” APTN, or the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, celebrated its 25th anniversary on cable at the start of this month. As part of the celebrations, the network…

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