Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Rescuing Critically Endangered Native American Languages, Summer, 2007
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Presentation of an excerpt from a booklet titled "Encouragement, Guidance, Insights, and Lessons Learned For Native Language Activists Developing Their Own Tribal Language Programs". The booklet is a transcript of a conversation between Darrell Kipp and 12 native language activists at the Piegan Institute, a Blackfeet immersion school co-founded by Kipp.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 8, August 2007, p. 5
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Comments on the importance of Elders to teach young people traditional practices and languages that they may not otherwise have been taught.
Article located by scrolling to page 5.
Authors examine government policies and a range of community, education, business, health, and media initiatives that variously support or hinder efforts to maintain or revive the use of Indigenous languages. Compares the effects of language devaluation in two different colonized nations.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 24, no. 1, Q epethet ye Mestiyexw, 2000, pp. 7-13
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Presents author's personal life experiences using traditional Stó:lõ narrative style and metaphor and the importance of reviving the Halq'emeylem language.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Our Story, Our Way, Winter, 2007
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Describes stories told to the author by her mother and father in Diné and English and comments on the necessity of preserving both languages and stories.
Mosaic : A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 40, no. 3, September 2007, pp. 123-137
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Argues that Thomas King draws on connections between orality, mother tongue and maternity, and between written language and paternity; also notes that King writes to encourage readers to question what they "think they know about history" and to consider whose history is being questioned.