Concordia teacher, students fight for the Mohawk language

If you’re missing your language, you’re missing a piece of yourself.
That’s the message Steve Bonspiel is imparting on students at Concordia University — where his journalism class is documenting efforts to save the Kanien:kéha language.
The language once thrived in southern Quebec, Ontario and upstate New York and has been used by the Mohawk people for millennia. But there are now only about 3,000 Kanien:kéha speakers left on the planet.
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