Partnerships

We are grateful to the Government of Canada, Canadian Heritage, and the First Nations University of Canada, for their renewed support of our pîkiskwêwin podcast project: Sharing Indigenous Languages On Radio and Online.

With this renewed support, we are reaching out to a national community of individuals and organizations who are preserving Indigenous pîkiskwêwina (languages) on radio and online.

One of the most important "places" to hear Indigenous languages is the Indigenous language radio networks and stations that cover almost every corner of Canada.

In the 1970s, Indigenous radio stations started broadcasting in local communities. In the 1980s, many of those stations came together to form regional Indigenous language radio networks. 

Most of the Indigenous language radio networks that were established in the 1980s and are still on the air today, and new community station and radio networks have been established.