By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — The Beaver language of the Dane-zaa people was one of nine different language families analyzed by a new report. The Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages in collaboration with Statistics Canada released the data on Monday, March 31st: National Indigenous Languages Day. According to the Treaty 8 Tribal Association’s website, Dane-zaa or the Beaver language – part of the Athabaskan family – is the dialect spoken among several bands in northeast B.C. These include Doig River First Nation, Prophet River First Nation and Halfway River First Nation. The report suggests the province has a “diverse group” of Athabaskan speakers with roughly three quarters of respondents surveyed – 75.9 per cent – living in B.C. able to…
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