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Indigenous women lead language preservation in Canada The Mi'kmaq First Nation are indigenous to present-day Atlantic Canada (Flickr/ Shawn Harquail ). More Indigenous women speak or understand their primary Indigenous language than men in Canada,  Statistics Canada  reports.  By number, there are more off-reserve Indigenous women than men who speak their primary Indigenous language. However, there are also more Indigenous women than men in Canada. Comparing the percentage of speakers to the population in each region, more Indigenous women than men speak their primary Indigenous language in all provinces and the Northwest Territories. The average Indigenous language speakers across the country is 35.2 per cent of Indigenous women, to 32 per cent of Indigenous men. Over 716,000 Indigenous women to just 648,000 Indigenous men speak or understand their primary Indigenous language. The difference is the largest in the Northwest Territories, where 68.3 per cent of Indigenous ...

 1. Chart 2. Question Why does Quebec have the most Indigenous peoples who speak their primary Indigenous language "very well or relatively well," of any other province? 3. Link and Brief Summary Indigenous Language Policy in Quebec ,  First Nations Education Council ,  Aboriginal Languages in Quebec: Fighting Linguicide with Bilingual Education I believe these sources will help me answer the above question, because they explain policies and programs in Quebec that attempt to increase Indigenous language speakers. The first resource is a list of policies passed for and by Indigenous communities in Quebec, to reinvigorate their communities. The second source is a link for the First Nations Education Council, the only one of its kind in the country. I felt the existence of such a program definitely aids Indigenous language speakers. The last resource is a report conducted in 2008, on how Indigenous communities in Quebec were fighting the loss of their languages. Due to the...

 1. Lede Indigenous peoples in Quebec have the highest self-rated ability to speak their primary language "very well," of any other province.  2.  Excel Workbook Link My data contains information on how Indigenous peoples in different provinces and territories rate their ability to speak an Indigenous language. On the left are the options how someone could rate their language level, split up by geographical area. In my slice, there are some data points labelled as "F" — these are data points Statistics Canada labelled "too unreliable to be published." 3.  Original Dataset