Kari A. B. Chew, Ph.D.

Indigenous Language Education

  • About
  • Writing
  • Online Learning
    • Creating Online Indigenous Language Courses Video Series
    • Learning in Relation Guide
    • Learning in Relation Webinar
    • Map of Online Indigenous Language Courses
  • Curriculum Design
    • Growing the Fire Within: Adult Language Learning
  • About
  • Writing
  • Online Learning
    • Creating Online Indigenous Language Courses Video Series
    • Learning in Relation Guide
    • Learning in Relation Webinar
    • Map of Online Indigenous Language Courses
  • Curriculum Design
    • Growing the Fire Within: Adult Language Learning
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    Weaving words: Conceptualizing language reclamation through culturally-significant metaphor

    When the Creator called us to our homelands to become a distinct people, Chickasaws received the gift of our language—Chikashshanompa’—with which to speak to each other, the land, the plants, the animals, and the Creator. Chickasaws have held sacred the gift of our living language, passing it from generation to…

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    Hear our languages, hear our voices: Stories of resilience and justice in Indigenous-language reclamation

    Storywork provides an epistemic, pedagogical, and methodological lens through which to examine Indigenous language reclamation in practice. We theorize the meaning of language reclamation in diverse Indigenous communities based on firsthand narratives of Chickasaw, Mojave, Miami, Hopi, Mohawk, Navajo, and Native Hawaiian language reclamation. Language reclamation is not about preserving…

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    Teaching from a place of hope in Indigenous education

    The Council on Anthropology and Education’s Standing Committee on Indigenous Education has had a presence at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropology Association over the past decade. Member activities focus on engaging in theoretical and methodological discussions central to the field of Indigenous education, particularly those related to power…

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    Claiming space: An autoethnographic study of Indigenous graduate students engaged in language reclamation

    This article explores the critical role of an emerging generation of Indigenous scholars and activists in ensuring the continuity of their endangered heritage languages. Using collaborative autoethnography as a research method, the authors present personal accounts of their pursuit of language reclamation through graduate degree programs. These accounts speak to…

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    Family at the heart of Chickasaw language reclamation

    The Chickasaw Nation faces rapid and unprecedented decline of its language, Chikashshanompa’. As a result, community members are growing increasingly aware of the importance of the language to identity and culture, and language reclamation has emerged as a dynamic project requiring commitment from all generations. This article argues that despite…

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    Chikashshanompa’ ilanompola’chi [We will speak Chickasaw]: The significance of Chickasaw language decline and revitalization

    December 30, 2013, marked a monumental loss for the Chickasaw Nation as it mourned the passing of its last monolingual speaker. Born in the 1920s, this valued elder surely witnessed unprecedented and relentless change within her community as mainstream American values were increasingly imposed on and even embraced by other…

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Dr. Kari A. B. Chew

Chokma. Saholhchifoat Kari Chew. Chikashsha saya. Chikashshanompa' ithanali.

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