Maclean's, vol. 116, no. 3, January 20, 2003, p. 43
Description
Author hired to teach six week writing course for Adult Literacy Project of Kugluktuk, Nunavut found that while government is pushing towards instruction in Inuit languages, there are few literary resources and most teachers are not Inuit.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 27, no. 1, Advancing Aboriginal Language and Literacy, 2003, pp. 23-28
Description
Native literacy is explored in terms of oral tradition, storytelling, culture, and language. Compares Native and Euro-Western definitions of literacy and looks at implications in the field of education.
Book reviews of:
The Prix Volney: Its History and Significance for the Development of Linguistic ResearchEarly Nineteenth-Century Contributions to General and Amerindian Linguistics ...Contributions to Comparative Indo-European, African, and Chinese Linguistics.
Historical reproduction of 19th century essay series.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 429-432
Description
Using an example in which she challenged a newspaper story claiming that that there was no written Lakota language the author talks about the way that Indigenous people are often not considered to be knowledgeable about their own languages and cultures in the academy.