First Nations and Endangered Languages


First Nations and Endangered Languages (FNEL) is a program housed within the Institute for critical Indigenous Studies (CIS). Learn more about CIS here.

First Nations and Endangered Languages (FNEL) offers courses in First Nations languages, as well as methodology classes on language documentation, conservation and revitalization. In partnership and collaboration with First Nations and Indigenous communities and their cultural institutions, staff, scholars and students in our program conduct research with speakers of endangered languages and help to develop educational materials in British Columbia and beyond. To learn more, visit the FNEL website.