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Asoshiitiik (forthcoming)
“The work that is closest to my heart is bringing the language back into my home and using it with my family.” Chew, K. A. B. (forthcoming). Asoshiitiik. In B. Brayboy, A. Marin, A. Craig, M. Villegas, K. Kawaiʻaeʻa, L. T. Smith (Eds.), Across lands and waters: Storying the future…
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Orthography choice in Indigenous language CALL courses
For many Indigenous Nations and organizations, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) courses have become an effective means to support Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation (ILR) efforts. Engaging a methodology of storywork and highlighting relationships between relevant fields of ILR, CALL, and applied linguistics, this article focuses on orthography choice and use…
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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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Enacting hope through narratives of Indigenous language and culture reclamation
In globalizing landscapes, Indigenous ways of knowing and being persist in their connectedness to specific geographies, even as they are transformed by migrations, both forced and voluntary, and dynamic exchanges. This paper presents narratives of Indigenous and ally scholars which explore what it means to enact language and culture reclamation…
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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…