Mixed Languages

"Plenary paper at the conference The Real California Gold: Indigenous & Immigrant Heritage Languages of California, University of California Davis, May 7-8, 2010."

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.

Examines preservice educators' and students views of language and literacy development, and language variation in Saskatchewan.

Looks at the current terminology, policies and context for language education and research in Canada.

The introduction by the guest editor to the special issue, "Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literatures" discusses a number of issues surrounding the endangered status of Indigenous languages and process of revitalization.

Author examines the role that translators play in the construction of meaning of a text, and the resulting implications and politics.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2011.

Website links to: greetings, common phrases, time and elements, food and domestic life, etc.

Talks about compilation of Aboriginal language glossary of medical terms common across many language families in order to assist health care providers.

Provides a first hand account of one family's forced relocation from a small Métis community in southwestern Manitoba. Text in both Michif and English.

Discussion on the mixing of Cree, Michif, and English languages in Indigenous communities; and looks at the evidence of how teachers are responding to this Indigenizing of EngUsh.

Book review of Loss and Renewal edited by Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy.

Reports on the interaction that took place between the Frisian, Dutch whalers and Greenlanders in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Looks at the different learning and teaching strategies that were used to develop English and Chinook literacy.

Looks at a group, the Regina First Nations Language Speaking Circle, formed to keep First Nations languages from vanishing, including posting phrases and lessons on the internet. Article located by scrolling to page 19.

Compares grassroots Mayan languages revitalization movements in Belize and Guatemala/Mesoamerica; considers the academic and publishing communities’ marginalization of Belize language revitalization efforts and the effects on Kriol and Mopan dialects, and the socioeconomic and geopolitical factors at play in the language landscape of Belize.

Author uses translation to Anishinaabemowin, word play, and close readings to examine a different way of making meaning in and from Gertrude Stein’s cubist poetry.

Looks at the rules of grammar, and the nature of the Blackfoot English dialect in Southern Alberta.

Author examines 19th century liturgical texts adapted and translated to the Cherokee language. Semantic analysis reveals several representational and conceptual problems that had to be overcome in order to create effective translations of the texts.

Forestry and Forest Environment Thesis (M.Sc.F.)--Lakehead University, 2000.

"From the Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1872."

Discusses the variation of spellings of First Nations languages and names. The article also includes a pronunciation guide to various Cree dialects.

Comments on the two strands that were descendants of New South Wales Pidgin English.

Website includes language map, audio of heritage languages, video clips and blog.

Contents: Part I. Chinook-English; Part II. English-Chinook; The Lord's Prayer in Chinook

Looks at Aboriginal conversation style using dialogue between two women as an example.

Provides enough material on the language to understand and converse at a basic level.

Discussion on English dialect differences and culturally relevant assessment and intervention practices for Aboriginal communities.

2nd edition.

File contains a presentation by Rosie Okpik, Inuit artist who states that the Inuit have made everything they need to live in their own way. For Inuit people, "It was the art of making these things that was most important, not the thing itself that the white man admired." With European contact, the Inuit gradually no longer made tools, clothing and shelters, and thus they began to lose their culture "because our culture is the things we make." Okpik introduces Ed McKenna, Okpik's secretary and manager, and together they answers questions from the Commissioners.

Discusses results from interviews with Sami journalists, children and a rap musician.

Discusses the history and revival of the Hawaiian language.

Discusses some of the challenges and difficulties Ju/'hoansi language has encountered.

Looks at the relationship between language policies, social capital and cultural and economic development in a multilingual region. Chapter 21 from International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship edited by Léo-Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson. Entire e-book on one pdf. To access chapter, scroll to page 257 or select chapter 21 on side bar.

Survey of the Michif language in communities in Manitoba and North Dakota indicates it developed before the westward movement of the Métis.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (MIDST)--University of New Brunswick, 2016.

Comments on the diffusion of Pacific Pidgin English, the resulting creole, and creole's survival and expansion due to historical events.

Information from two Nuxalk men, Captain Schooner and Joshua Moody in Chinook jargon, about magic and medicine of plants and animals including negative powers of a "bad box."

Looks at difficulties children speaking Kriol or Torres Strait Creole face when entering the school system in Australia.

Looks at the history of the English-based creole lingua franca over a fifty year period.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado, 2006.

Looks at the intersection of language and culture in the North American British-US borderlands.

Discusses the answers of a Western-based survey to assess cultural perspectives of Aboriginal mothers on how they teach their children language.