Includes brief history of the education authority, overview of its activities, discussion of programming in areas of language and culture at the elementary level, and analysis of success indicators for secondary and post-secondary students.
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.
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.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 39, no. 3, 2004, pp. 342-353
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Looks at the development of the Certificate in Aboriginal Literacy Education program and follow-up workshops for creating children's books in-order to preserve the Mi'kmaq language in the community of Wagmatcook, Cape Breton.
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.