ĆENKI,LES (Spring) 2018, Issue 2
We look forward to reconnecting with Partners and collaborators in person on Wednesday, June 6th, at our All Partners’ Gathering. We will meet in Lethbridge, AB, taking advantage of the Stabilizing ...
Lighting a Fire: Community-Based Delivery of a University Indigenous-Language Teacher Education Program
The time has come for radical change in Indian education. Our aim is to make education relevant to the philosophy and needs of Indian people. We want education to give our children a strong sense of i...
Supporting Indigenous language revitalisation through collaborative postsecondary proficiency-building curriculum
One contemporary strategy for reversing language shift undertaken by Indigenous communities includes engaging with educational institutions. In Canada language revitalisation strategies in Indigenous ...
An Exploration of the Effects of Mentor-Apprentice Programs on Mentors’ and Apprentices’ Wellbeing
Increasingly, adult Indigenous language learners are being identified as the “missing generation” of learners who hold great potential to contribute to the revival of Indigenous languages by actin...
Laying the Groundwork: A Practical Guide for Ethical Research with Indigenous Communities
Although there are numerous ethical guidelines for research with Indigenous communities, not all research is conducted in an ethical, culturally respectful, and effective way. To address this gap, we ...
ĆENIȾEȽOṈSET (Fall) 2017, Issue 1
We are excited to announce the beginning of a 6-year journey together with our Partners on a SSHRC Partnership Grant....
Indigenous Bilingual and Revitalization-Immersion Education in Canada and the USA
The sociolinguistic landscape in Native North America is defined by the combined realities of language loss and reclamation. In these contexts there is an overwhelming trend toward revitalization-imme...
Family at the Heart of Chickasaw Language Reclamation
Located in south- central Oklahoma, the Chickasaw Nation faces unprecedented language loss. Because of colonization and forced assimilation, the intergenerational transmission of the Chickasaw languag...