Preservation & Revitalization

Examines Soviet state policy and attitudes of indigenous communities towards endangerment of minority languages.

Evaluates the impact of efforts to promote the use of Inuktitut in the capital of Nunavut.

Author discusses the history, attitudes and ideologies surrounding endangered Native languages.

Presents the resolution that was formulated and acted upon by the participants of the 30th American Indian Language Development Institute, Tucson, Arizona on the 2nd of July, 2009. Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.

Atlantic Canada Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 2003.

Focuses on the Kawnni:io Mohawk and Cayuga immersion school, revival of Wyandot, and post-secondary language programs.

Explores the long term effect of denying First Nations schools the resources they need.

Looks at a school that for 14 years has produced 100 percent high school graduation and 80 percent college attendance but is federally required to test students in English rather than the language they are taught in.

Analysis of the political problems faced by Native American people in United States local government and the lack of consensus attained due to the complexity of some of the issues.

Investigation showed that Mãori tweets are increasing and tied to specific events.

Looks at the importance of using language to create cross cultural understanding as well as a tool to ensure language survival.

Looks at the status of Aboriginal languages in this country and argues that they have a better chance of survival here than elsewhere in the world.

Looks at a language revitalization program in Kenai, Alaska which partners the community with the university and reports the challenges and compromises that accompany this partnership.

Contains a dictionary and grammar of the Inukitut language.

"Read before the American Philosophical Society, October 2, 1891". "Reprinted Jan. 25, 1892, from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. XXIX."

Excerpt from Report on the Queen Charlotte Islands, 1878 (p.177B-189 Appendix B).

Book review of: A Voice Great Within Us by Charles Lillard with Terry Glavin. Scroll to page 132 to read review.

Describes approaches such as building on oral tradition as well as the use of computing equipment to preserve the language.

Comments on the website Ojibwe.net and what it is doing towards the preservation of Anishinaabemowin.

Focuses on the internet site Noongwa e-Anishinaabemjig: People Who Speak Anishinaabemowin Today hosted by the University of Michigan. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 3.

Discusses how place names reveal and provide attachments to the land, to the past, and to the Hawaiian identity.

Comments on a Kasaan Haida elder woman and her efforts to document her family and village history.

Excellent teacher resource includes links to information and videos about the following topics: worldviews, oral traditions, Elders, culture and language, kinship, Aboriginal and treaty rights, healing historical trauma, symbolism and traditions, connection to land, Indigenous pedagogy, well-being, and traditional environmental knowledge. Related material: Talking Together: A Discussion Guide.

Discusses the reasons why the author had difficulty attempting to learn his Dakota language. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 57.

Looks at using song and local identity to change negative and damaging behaviours.

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.

Pasifika youth (aged 18-25) are interviewed in focus groups in which they express their distress about the diminishing presence of Indigenous language use and preservation, article notes that there is no comprehensive language policy to preserve these languages and that losing them has profound negative effects for the youth of culturally marginalized communities.

Book review of We are Our Language by Barbra A. Meek. Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 195.

Book review of: We Are Our Language by Barbra A. Meek. Review located by scrolling to page 204.

Looks at the need for aboriginal education opportunities for urban aboriginal people and identifies three central challenges facing both language workers and learners.

Discussion on efforts to preserve languages and cultural practices.

Discusses the development of the syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible, and looks at how present-day efforts of reading and writing with the syllabary and speaking Cherokee contribute to language perseverance.

Very brief film review of: We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân directed by Anne Makepeace, which is about the Wôpanâak (Wampanoag) Language Reclamation Project.

Review of the film, We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân directed and produced by Anne Makepeace.

Article draws on author’s work with youth who are learning new ways to practice Indigenous Ainu culture in an urban center in Japan; focuses on cultural practice and revitalization, decolonization and self-determination.

Explains how Sámi use the cultural centres for documentation and preservation of language and heritage.

Study that looks at the link between Māori cultural identity and concern for the environment.

Looks at Aboriginal distribution based on information gathered from a group of people who still speak their ancestral language and those who do not.

Discusses how the Canadian government inflicted damage on First Nations cultures by the suppression of language and learning, and the enforcement of schooling in "civilized" culture.

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.

Contends Alaska Native students should be bilingual and bicultural in their language and traditions and in the English language and traditions.

A woman tells about her life, her language and sharing her language with her granddaughter.

Film review of: Why Save a Language by Sally Thompson.

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.

Comments on language revitalization and documentation, and the engagement with Indigenous peoples.

Comments on a conference held to assess the status of the Inuit and Eskimo languages and to study the impact of educational and other maintenance policies. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 19.