Editing Michif (section)

=== Language revitalization ===
Revitalizing the Michif language is important to Métis people. Language is regarded as culturally significant and holds more value than just the attributes studied by linguists. Elder Brousse Flammand<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 November 2020 |title=About Brousse Flammand |url=https://thinkinginmichif.family.blog/about-brousse-flammand/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623203030/https://thinkinginmichif.family.blog/about-brousse-flammand/ |archive-date=2023-06-23 |access-date=2023-06-23 |work=Thinking in Michif}}</ref> writes "Language is central to nationhood" and that "A government cannot legislate this identity and nationhood; the government can only recognize what is already in existence."<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 November 2020 |title=The Genesis of the Michif Peoples |url=https://thinkinginmichif.family.blog/the-genesis-of-the-michif-peoples/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623203029/https://thinkinginmichif.family.blog/the-genesis-of-the-michif-peoples/ |archive-date=2023-06-23 |access-date=2023-06-23 |work=Thinking in Michif}}</ref> Michif was (and is) central to the independent culture and nationhood of the Métis people. The Métis community is working toward language revitalization to keep this connection to their independent culture and nationhood.

Métis cultural centres such as the Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute in [[St. Albert, Alberta]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=NAIT {{!}} Métis history to be preserved in one-of-a-kind virtual museum<!-- Bot generated title --> |url=http://www.nait.ca/44779_83141.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010215056/http://www.nait.ca/44779_83141.htm |archive-date=2017-10-10 |access-date=2012-07-19}}</ref> the Métis Culture and Heritage Resource Centre in [[Winnipeg]],<ref>[http://www.metisresourcecentre.mb.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=6 MCHRC Profile<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731070439/http://www.metisresourcecentre.mb.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=6|date=2012-07-31}}</ref> and the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research are attempting to revive the language through public outreach.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Overview of the Curriculum and Publishing Department |url=http://www.gdins.org/publishing |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512061019/http://www.gdins.org/publishing |archive-date=2013-05-12 |access-date=2013-03-24 |work=Gabriel Dumont Institute}}</ref> Additionally, The [[Louis Riel]] Institute (LRI), which is the education department of the Manitoba Metis Federation in Winnipeg, is an adult learning center committed to the development of community based educational programs directed to adults and the whole family. The Institute has released DVD beginner lessons for both Michif and Michif French, which are also available online.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mazzoli |first=Maria |title=Challenges and opportunities for collaborative language research: The Michif case study. |journal=Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics}}</ref>

As of 2013, the ''[[Northern Journal]]'' reports that "Aboriginal language and culture is becoming increasingly visible" in Alberta, as Alberta's Northland School Division, "serving mostly First Nations and Métis students in the northern part of the province" has expanded its community partnerships and culture camps.<ref>{{cite news |last=Renée Francoeur |date=2013-03-12 |title=Northland improves use of Aboriginal languages |url=https://norj.ca/2013/03/northland-improves-use-of-aboriginal-languages/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011051530/https://norj.ca/2013/03/northland-improves-use-of-aboriginal-languages/ |archive-date=2017-10-11 |access-date=2013-03-24 |work=Northern Journal}}</ref>