Preservation & Revitalization

Illustrates how language is essential to the survival of a culture and how state-imposed destruction of Indigenous languages has caused the loss of traditional knowledge systems.

Introduction to themed issue of journal.

Discusses the challenges of preserving Native American cultures and languages and the pressures to assimilate into English-speaking culture, largely due to colonization and genocide.

Book review of: Native Tongues by Sean P. Harvey.

Outlines the interests and goals of several tribal college student scholarship recipients.

As part of The Canadian Journal of Native Studies commitment to preserving Aboriginal languages in Canada, this is performed in Kiowa language.

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2007.

Comments on the success of the Hawaiian medium education program and the challenges involved in expanding the program to include more children.

Discusses challenges of recovery and revitalization of endangered Indigenous languages.

Interviewee discusses area of land covered when living by traditional trapping,hunting and fishing; relationship between residents of various northern settlements; and bringing freight by barge from Lesser Slave Lake.

Looks at how Indigenous languages has been impacted by colonization and globalization. Also discusses the challenges for culture and language revitalization.

Curriculum developed to help students obtain the skills necessary to communicate in the nēhiyaw language.

Looks at the Traditional Land Use Study and Consultation Unit created to act as an intermediary between industry, the provincial government of Alberta and First Nations to protect language and culture.

Author considers the current status of the Potawatomi language, describes different efforts being made by both tribal and National authorities to revitalize the language, and examines the impacts of these projects.

Report accessed through separate chapters.

"Comprising: the Abenakis alphabet, the key to the pronunciation and many grammatical explanations, also synoptical illustrations showing the numerous modifications of the Abenakis verb, &c. : to which is added the etymology of Indian names of certain localities, rivers, lakes, &c., &c."

Author explores 150 years of Navajo education and of language preservation, teaching and learning, and resurgence.

Authors explore the advantages, disadvantages, perceptions and cultural implications of of digital language preservation projects, in Northern Canada.

Profiles the work of four developers: Carl Petersen, Meagan Byrne, Elizabeth LaPensée, and Maize Longboat.

Examines the influence of the English language on the pronunciation of the long and short vowels of Māori.

Summary/Abstract of audioessay/podcast which explores efforts being made to preserve the Blackfoot language on the Blood Indian Reserve.

Indian and Northern Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1996.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--Lakehead University, 2010.

Native American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2006.

Book review of: The non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia edited by Nicholas Evans. Review located by scrolling to page 190.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1998.

Interview with the authors of a book about the language, culture and history of the Nooksack indigenous people. Duration: 30:20. Access part II.

Interview with the authors of a book, Nooksack Place Names: Geography, Culture and Language researched over 35 years, about the language, culture and history of the Nooksack indigenous people . Duration: 38:30. Access part I.

Text of the Convention in English (unofficial translation).

Discusses Indigenous, regional, state or territorial, and federal policy context in Canada and the U.S. At each level options and their accompanying opportunities and challenges are identified, and recommendations are made.

Brief profile of Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk, recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation in the Heritage and Spirituality category. Mitiarjuk is a Nunavik storyteller and teacher of Inuit culture, history, language and traditional knowledge.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.36.

Outlines vision, goals and objectives for strengthening heritage languages over the next ten years.

Book review of: Notes on Some Queensland Languages by Nils M. Holmer. Review located by scrolling to page 179.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2004.

Book review of: Nunavik: Inuit-Controlled Education in Arctic Quebec by Ann Wick-Westgate.

Describes author's life and his study of Indigenous languages.

Looks at practices and strategies to preserve and protect the Samoan language and culture. Text in Māori language.

Discusses the health of the four Polynesian Pasifika languages from the researchers and writers perspective.

Looks at relationship between education system with local districts, funding, state and federal policies, and standards and sovereignty, all external obstacles effecting language revitalization.

Examines government documents and school newspapers to explore sanctions against the use of their Indigenous languages by residential school students.

Site provides links to newsletters and press releases, annual report, language legislation and related reports for Nunavut's three official languages: French, English, and Inuktitut/Inuinnaqtun.

Comments that while Switzerland and Canada both have more than one official language, only Switzerland acknowledges its minority languages. Entire journal on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 79.

Comments on how the model of The Circle of Courage identifies strategies and methods for meeting needs to assure that all children and youth may thrive.

Website of a nonprofit organization based on Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario established to preserve and nurture Iroquoian languages and songs.

"In Three Parts: Part I - The Grammar, Part II - Dialogue and Exercises. Part III - The Dictionary."

Website for the Siksika Nation Community College that develops post secondary programs and services to promote their culture, language and history.

Discusses Navajo specialized bilingual programs.