#KeepOurLanguagesStrong
Indigenous communities, organizations, and individuals work tirelessly to #KeepOurLanguagesStrong. The COVID-19 pandemic was potentially detrimental to Indigenous language revitalization (ILR) as this...
Indigenous language learning impacts, challenges and opportunities in COVID-19 times
In March 2020, the COVID-19 global health crisis caused disruption to the daily lives and regular practices of most human populations. Indigenous language revitalization (ILR) work is often undertaken...
i-kiyohkātoyāhk (we visit): Adapting nēhiyawēwin/nīhithawīwin (Cree) language learning to the COVID19 reality
i-kiyohkātoyāhk (we visit) is a phrase which describes our experience of trying to recreate an online version of our way of life, being together in the language. The following report is our view of ...
Indigenous Language Revitalization and Applied Linguistics: Parallel Histories, Shared Futures?
Damages done to Indigenous languages occurred due to colonial forces, some of which continue to this day, and many believe efforts to revive them should involve more than Indigenous peoples alone. The...
Language-in-education policies and Indigenous language revitalization efforts in Canada
Indigenous languages are struggling for breath in the Global North. In Canada, Indigenous language medium schools and early childhood programs remain independent and marginalized. Despite government c...
Keeping our languages alive: Strategies for Indigenous language revitalization and maintenance
Since time immemorial, Indigenous languages have thrived in their homelands. In the land now called Canada, more than 500 years ago foreigners arrived from lands afar and brought with them their langu...
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 ...
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...