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Relationality in online Indigenous language courses
This article considers ways Indigenous Peoples enact relational epistemologies in online Indigenous language courses which support Indigenous language education. We give an overview of popular platforms and their key features, including audio, images, video, text-based instruction, and assessment. Based on our reviews of Indigenous language courses, we discuss how course…
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Creating online Indigenous language courses as decolonizing praxis
This article shares a participatory action research project about the use of technology, specifically online Indigenous language courses, to learn and teach Indigenous languages. The research collaborators are the NEȾOLṈEW̱ ‘one mind, one people’ Partnership, 7000 Languages, and two Indigenous Partners who have created courses with 7000 Languages: the Hase’…
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Learning in relation: A guide to creating online Indigenous language courses
This guide is an outcome of two-years of research about how Indigenous Peoples plan and create Indigenous language courses. Of focus is how these courses center relational epistemologies to support Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation. This guide is intended to support Indigenous Nations, communities, and organizations plan and create online…
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Creating Online Indigenous Language Courses: Video Series
Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation movements connect Indigenous Nations and organizations working to support the teaching and learning of ancestral languages. Many Indigenous language learning and teaching efforts focus on home, school, and community settings, but also important are virtual spaces. These short videos provide some information to help those…
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Chikashshaat asilhlhat holissochi [Chickasaws are asking and writing]: Enacting Indigenous protocols in academic research and writing
As Chikashsha (Chickasaw) scholars and Chikashshanompa’ shaali’ (Chickasaw language learners/carriers), we utilize a dialogic and autoethnographic approach to explore the continuance between ancestral and community protocols for research. An account of the Chickasaw Nation’s language revitalization efforts is followed by a discussion of how Indigenous scholars engage in the writing…
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Growing the fire within: Report
Indigenous communities and organizations are working to reclaim and revitalize their languages. Indigenous adult language learners, who did not grow up speaking their ancestral tongues, are critical to these efforts. These adults may run language revitalization programs, teach the language in school- and community-settings, and use the language at home…
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Storying an interconnected web of relationships in Indigenous language reclamation work and scholarship
Indigenous language work is manifested in a diversity of community-led responses of resilience and persistence. Indigenous persons who are reclaiming their languages have entered academia with goals of contributing to community language reclamation efforts and broader resurgence movements. Adapting Archibald’s (2008) concept of storywork—experiential narratives that privilege a cultural lens—we…
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Letter from the Indigenous guest editor
This Indigenous-led issue is itself unprecedented, and has also come together under unprecedented circumstances. Our undergraduate authors completed their submissions during an ongoing global pandemic and urgent Black Lives Matter movement, white supremacy, and colonization. We stand with the Indigenous Nations and communities of colour that are being impacted by…
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Special issue on Indigenous wellness: The Arbutus Review
This special interdisciplinary issue, focused on Indigenous wellness, is the result of a partnership between The Arbutus Review and the IMN PN. We welcomed submissions from Indigenous undergraduatesat post-secondary institutions in BC. A guiding principle of this issue was Indigenous mentorship. Undergraduate writers received feedback from graduate student peer reviewers…
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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…