A Canadian filmmaker says it's important native languages be preserved.
Andree Cazabon spoke yesterday to delegates attending the Native Studies conference in Fort Frances.
Cazabon says more schools need to offer courses in native languages.
"It's not far fetched to think that if we don't preserve language and culture that we can find ourselves with a bus load full of Asian tourists saying to them 'no,no,no we don't have any more aboriginal people in Canada. They've all been absorbed into the mainstream and don't exist anymore."
Cazabon found in her latest project, 'Third World Canada,' that many young aboriginals are already unable to speak the native language of their grandparents.
