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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    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…

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Dr. Kari A. B. Chew

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

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