Record details

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

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

Search for related items by subject

Subject:

Indians of North America > Languages > Study and teaching.
Indians of North America > Languages > Revival.
Indians of North America > Education (Higher)
Indian universities and colleges > United States.
Sociolinguistics > United States.
Language revival > United States.
Indian universities and colleges.
Indians of North America > Education (Higher)
Indians of North America > Languages > Revival.
Indians of North America > Languages > Study and teaching.
Language revival.
Sociolinguistics.
United States.