Language revitalization at tribal colleges and universities : overviews, perspectives, and profiles 1993-2018

Shreve, Bradley Glenn, 1970- (editor.).

Summary: Since the founding of the first tribal colleges over 50 years ago, language revitalization has been an integral part of every tribal college or university's mission. This new edited volume compiles an array of articles, essays, reports, and speeches that showcase the great efforts being made to preserve, protect, and revitalize Indigenous languages at tribal colleges across the United States. The first book of its kind, Language Revitalization at Tribal Colleges and Universities offers a chronological overvieww of preservation and revitalization efforts, revealing how programming and thinking have evolved over the past 25 years. -- From amazon.com

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ISBN: 9780984547234
ISBN: 0984547231
Physical Description: print
xvi, 215 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Mancos, Colorado : Tribal College Press, [2019].
Copyright: ©2019

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Foreword / Richard Littlebear -- Introduction -- Overviews -- New voices, ancient words : language immersion produces fluent speakers, stronger personal and cultural identities / Janine Pease -- Native languages and tribally controlled colleges : giving voice to Native nations / Paul Boyer -- More than words, a way of life : language restoration programs reach beyond tribal colleges and universities / Laura Paskus -- Voices -- Finding a place for Navajo : English must be restricted if the Navajo language is to survive / Clay Slate -- To save our languages, we must change our teaching methods / Richard Littlebear -- Who will teach my great-great grandchildren Dakotah? / Tammy Eastma DeCoteau -- One man, two languages : confessions of a freedom-loving bilingual / Richard Littlebear -- "We are resilient, and we are succeeding" : a statement before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs / Thomas Shortbull -- "To revitalize our languages, we must work at all levels" : a statement before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs / Clarena M. Brockie -- Native languages preserve our way of thinking and knowing / Richard B. Williams -- Profiles -- Learning Lodge Institute : Montana colleges empower cultures to save languages / Paul Boyer -- Rekindling the Anishanabelanguage fires at Bay Mills / Jennifer Dale -- Using Blackfoot language to rediscover who we are / Duane Mistaken Chief Sr. -- Little Priest immerses students in language -- Giving voice to Crow Country : the Crow Place Name Project / Carrie Moran McCleary -- Back from the brink : innovative language program involves three generations / Ron Selden -- Teasing aside : Little Big Horn College maintains Crow language, culture / Luella Brien -- Language of the people forever : Bay Mills spins thread tying Ojibwa communities together / Brenda Austin -- Firing up White Clay : immersion school students encouraged to return, give back / Kurt Umbhau -- Ojibwemotaadidaa : preparing a new generation of fluent speakers / Persia Erdrich -- Louis Soop and language restoration at Red Crow Community College / Mary Weasel Fat -- Blackfeet Community College develops Montana's first Native language app -- Ilisagvik College offers language nest program / Devin P. Bates -- Lokota documentaries : working with cultural heritage at a tribal university / Jurgita Antoine -- A rebirth for the Lakota language : institute hopes to create a new generation of speakers / Christopher Vondracek -- Research -- Native American language immersion : innovative Native education for children and families / Janine Pease.