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By Fern Marmont, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Eastern Door The ceremony on June 6 honoured the nine graduates who completed the intensive three-year immersion program. So far, this has been the largest graduating cohort for the program. \u201cThere is always the fear that when students from the program graduate, they get lost within the community,\u201d said Wenn\u2019tiio Will Gareau, a language teacher at Ratiwennenh\u00e1:wi. He added that it\u2019s always a struggle to maintain the Kanien\u2019k\u00e9ha speaking community. \u201cS,o it\u2019s great to see that since this cohort has finished, they seem even stronger in their conviction towards our language, to save our language, and to keep speaking,\u201d said Gareau. \u201cThat\u2019s what they showed at the graduation, the confidence and pride for how far they\u2019ve come,\u201d said Gareau. For Gareau, this… <\/p>\n

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By Fern Marmont, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Eastern Door The ceremony on June 6 honoured the nine graduates who completed the intensive three-year immersion program. So far, this has been the largest graduating cohort for the program. \u201cThere is always the fear that when students from the program graduate, they get lost within the community,\u201d said Wenn\u2019tiio Will Gareau, a language teacher at Ratiwennenh\u00e1:wi. He added that it\u2019s always a struggle to maintain the Kanien\u2019k\u00e9ha speaking community. \u201cS,o it\u2019s great to see that since this cohort has finished, they seem even stronger in their conviction towards our language, to save our language, and to keep speaking,\u201d said Gareau. \u201cThat\u2019s what they showed at the graduation, the confidence and pride for how far they\u2019ve come,\u201d said Gareau. For Gareau, this... <\/p>\n

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