Mamu Tshishkutamashutau Innu Education has officially announced that it will offer an Innu-aimun immersion kindergarten program at its schools this Fall. Parents enrolling their children in the Sheshatshiu Innu School will have the option of registering them in either English or Innu-aimun immersion classes; parents who register their children for the Mushuau Innu Natuashish School will only have the option of the immersion classes. The program follows the Newfoundland and Labrador Schools curriculum, according to The Independent, with added Innu culture. “There’s a lot of English everywhere, so we don’t need that,” said MTIE Curriculum Developer Francesca Snow. “They need to teach the kids their own language, or they will lose the language.” Snow said she hopes to develop the curriculum for up to Grade 3 in the Innu-aimun immersion program, so that students can study in their own language during their developmental years.
