Convener: Sarah Bouvier

Participants: France Ennis, Pat Foster

Summary of Discussion

• Identity: the role Head Start
• Language teaching: start with the basics (numbers, alphabet, greetings
• Importance of using language in the community and council. Many communities have different ways they use language.
• Parents need to come in and learn language with their kids.
• Kinship:kids need to know who they are and where they come from.
• How long before the language disappears?
• Going out on the land and learning survival.`
• Use of medicines
• Fammily approach as in CAPC could be introduced as a part of Head Start.

Need for radio and TV to reinforce language and culture.