The NCN Lessons site is brought to you by chuutsqa Layla Rorick, kinkʷaaštaqumłaqsup, ḥiškʷiiʔaqsup, Doctoral Candidate,
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow at University of Victoria, BC.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow at University of Victoria, BC.
Upcoming Events with chuutsqa
2023 Hesquiaht Language on Hesquiaht Land Camp, Lead & Instructor, 100 hours in 22 days.
2021-2022 Spirit Aligned Future Legacy Leader with Legacy Leader Dr. Lorna Wanostst'a7 Williams.
2021 Hesquiaht Language Action Stories & a Language Lesson at Carving on the Edge Festival.
2021 IED 158 & 159, Nuu-chah-nulth Language at UVic.
2020/2021 Nuu-chahnulth Language Classes at North Island College & Quuquuatsa Society.
Fall 2020 Mentor-Apprentice Training for First Nations Language Teachers.
Sept. 2020-Ongoing Hesquiaht Language Immersion Class Online.
2020 Online Mentor-Apprentice Workshop.
2021-2022 Spirit Aligned Future Legacy Leader with Legacy Leader Dr. Lorna Wanostst'a7 Williams.
2021 Hesquiaht Language Action Stories & a Language Lesson at Carving on the Edge Festival.
2021 IED 158 & 159, Nuu-chah-nulth Language at UVic.
2020/2021 Nuu-chahnulth Language Classes at North Island College & Quuquuatsa Society.
Fall 2020 Mentor-Apprentice Training for First Nations Language Teachers.
Sept. 2020-Ongoing Hesquiaht Language Immersion Class Online.
2020 Online Mentor-Apprentice Workshop.
Recent Events with chuutsqa
2023 Opening Keynote, ʔuty̓aapniš t̓ap̓atmisuk ciqy̓ak wałyuuqun: We are bringing a language immersion
plan home, Northwest Linguistics Conference at UVic.
2023 Panel speaker, Power of Community Knowledge, Dr. Budd Hall’s UVic Community
Scholars, Victoria.
2022 Panel and Assistant Organizer, Indigenous Perspectives: Advancing Change in Higher Education UNESCO
World Higher Education Conference, Spain.
2021 Panel, World Virtual Indigenous Circle on Open Science and the Decolonization of Knowledge,
Canadian Commission for UNESCO, UVic.
2021 Co-teacher, Learning about Nuu-chah-nulth Prayer for Nuu-chah-nulth Women, 2spirit & gender non-
binary.
2020-2021 Hesquiaht Language Online Class, Mon. & Wed. Nights, Hesquiaht Language Program, Zoom.
2020 Mentor-Apprentice & Hesquiaht Story Filming, Hesquiaht Language Program/Kitikmeot Heritage/Reel
Youth Media.
2020 NCN 096 Nuu-chah-nulth Language, North Island College, Quuquuatsa Language Society.
2020 Hesquiaht Summer Language Class Online, Hesquiaht Language Program.
2020 Hesquiaht Language Gathering, Hesquiaht Language Program, Port Aberni, BC.
2020 Hesquiaht Language Month, Hesquiaht First Nation, Port Aberni, BC
2020 Indigenous Education 299: nuučaan̓uł Resource Development, University of Victoria/QLS.
2020 First Nations Language Teachers Mentor-Apprentice Training, First Nations Education Steering
Committee, Richmond, BC.
2019 Rapid Word Collection Hesquiaht Language Workshop, Port Alberni, BC.
2019 Mentor-Apprentice Train-the-Trainers for Inuinnaqtun Language, Arctic College, Cambridge Bay, NU.
2019 Group Mentor-Apprentice Training, Hesquiaht Language Program.
2019 Rapid Word Collection Hesquiaht Language Workshop, Hesquiaht Language Program.
2019 nuučaan̓uł Language Summer Institute on Hesquiaht Land, Hooksum Outdoor School.
2019 Mentor-Apprenticeship in BC First Nations Schools, First Nations Languages Institute, First Nations
Education Steering Committee, Richmond, BC.
2019 huuʔaciy̓uk̓ʷapniš ciqy̓akckʷakʔi yaqwiimit ḥiškʷiiʔatḥ: We are Bringing Back Hesquiaht Ancestral Language: Stories & Insights from Year 1 of our 4 New ḥiḥiškʷiiʔatḥa Mentor-Apprentice Teams, 2019 International Conference on Indigenous Languages, First Peoples' Cultural Council, Victoria, BC.
2019 nuučaan̓uł Language Revitalization Informed by Fluent Speakers and Archival Documents, Historical-Comparative Linguistics for Language Revitalization, University of California, Davis, USA.
2019 huʔaciy̓uk̓ʷap ciqy̓akckwakʔi yaqwiimit ḥiškwiiʔatḥ: Bring back the Ancient Language of our Hesquiaht Ancestors: Community-Based Indigenous Language Activism and Scholarship, Slippery Rock University, Pittsburgh, USA.
2019 Rosborough, T., Rorick, c.L. Beautiful Words: Enriching Language Revitalization Through Understanding of Linguistic Structure, 6th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu.
2019 Rosborough, T., Rorick, c.L. Beautiful Words: An Invitation into Kwak’wala & ḥiḥiškwiiʔatḥa Revitalization & Reclamation, UVic Linguistics Colloquium, University of Victoria, BC.
2019 Indigenous Education 256: Self-directed Immersive Language Learning, Instructor, University of Victoria