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This book builds a space in which a diversity of voices – Indigenous teachers, activists and committed academics – are foregrounded in the processes of Indigenous education with the goal of Indigenous language reclamation. It decenters state systems of education (e.g. schooling) and instead considers the efforts of teachers (defined broadly), community activists and scholars who are developing initiatives to support Indigenous language practices in, around and beyond schooling, thereby emphasizing diverse processes of language reclamation in complex and varied settings.

The authors invite the reader to reconsider language reclamation in the face of climate change and neocolonial exploitation, offering a source of radical hope for the future. Central to the book are narratives regarding community-based collaborations, which subvert the asymmetrical power relations between academia and educational practitioners and activists, and call into question the categories constructed by a top-down approach, as well as the colonial relationships that linguistic anthropology and linguistics have constructed within the spaces and people they 'study'.

About the authors

Foreword: Weaving Indigenous Words and Worlds and the Work of Everyday Hope

Elizabeth Alva Sumida Huaman

Introduction

Julieta Briseño-Roa, Paulina Griñó, Vanessa Anthony-Stevens and José Antonio Flores Farfán

Part 1: Narratives of Reclamation: Lifework and Learning in Dialogue 

Chapter 1.

'We Are Not Going to Be Who We Were Meant to Be if We Don't Speak Our Language'   

Julee Dehose, Jennie Burns and Vanessa Anthony-Stevens

Chapter 2.

A Conversation about Language Revitalization and Reciprocal Research Practices

David E.K. Smith and Richard Atuk: Nunayaaġviŋmi Itut Uvlumini in Anchorage 

Chapter 3.

Reclamation of Language, Stories, Relationship to the Land: Niimíipuu Female as a Storyteller

Angel Sobotta Talaltlílpt

Poem by Celerina Patricia Sánchez Santiago: Nchií Naá Kuú/¿Quién Soy? /Who Am I?

Part 2: Pedagogies and Practices of Indigenous Language Reclamation in and around Schools 

Chapter 4.

Communal Education, Existence of Shared Autonomy

Erika Candelaria Hernández Aragón and Haydée Morales Flores

Chapter 5. 

Experiences and Spaces of Opportunity for Work with the Ngigua Language

Teresa Damian Jara

Chapter 6.

The Use of Indigenous Languages in Community-based Indigenous Education in Oaxaca, Mx

Beatriz González and Cornelio Hernández Pérez 

Chapter 7.

Toward a Methodology of Urban Indigenous Youth Language Learning

Ernesto Colín

Poem by Felipe Ruiz Jiménez: Gidro' Lihdxan/Placenta

Part 3: Redefining Language Learning in Diverse Spaces and Modes 

Chapter 8.

Nłt'éégo Bénáłdiih: The Dissemination of Ndee Epistemology in Contemporary Times

Louie Lorenze and Philip Stevens

Chapter 9.

Reconnecting to Homelands through Digital Storywork

Jessica Matsaw and Sammy Matsaw

Chapter 10.

Learning from Narratives: Life Stories of Indigenous Students in Chilean Graduate Science Programs as Voices of Advocacy for University Space Reclamation

Marta Silva Fernández, Jennifer Brito Pacheco and Paulina Griñó

Chapter 11.

Reflections and Actions on Linguistic Resistance in Formal and Informal Spaces as a Proposal for Decolonization in Wallmapu/Wajmapu

Carolina Kürüf Poblete, Silvia Calfuqueo and Kelly Baur

Poem by Celerina Patricia Sánchez Santiago: Kuú Teku/Ser de colores/Being of Colours

Epilogue

Julieta Briseño-Roa, Paulina Griñó, Vanessa Anthony-Stevens and José Antonio Flores Farfán 

Index