By Heidi Atter, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Independent Innu students heading into Kindergarten will now have the ability to be fully immersed in their own language, following years of work since  Innu reclaimed jurisdiction over education in 2009. “There’s a lot of English everywhere, so we don’t need that,” said  Francesca Snow, a retired teacher and the curriculum developer with Mamu  Tshishkutamashutau Innu Education (MTIE). “They need to teach the kids  their own language, or they will lose the language.” Snow said she has enjoyed making the curriculum. “I focus on when I  was teaching kindergarten,” she said, “and I want that teacher to know  how to teach and how to set up the classroom in both languages.” Snow has prepared short sentences, picture vocabularies, workbooks and more in

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