Language Planning and Policy in Native America History, Theory, Praxis

by McCarty, Teresa L.

• ISBN13: 9781847698629
• ISBN10: 184769862X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-02-19
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

Comprehensive in scope yet full of ethnographic detail, this book examines the history of language policy by and for Native Americans, and contemporary language revitalization initiatives. Offering a critical-theory view and emphasizing the perspectives of revitalizers themselves, the book explores innovative language regenesis projects, the role of Indigenous youth in language reclamation, and prospects for Native American language and culture continuance.

Author Biography

Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Alice Wiley Snell Professor Emerita of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University. An educational anthropologist and applied linguist, she has worked with Indigenous education programs throughout North America. Her books include A Place To Be Navajoâ??Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling (2002); Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling (2005); 'To Remain an Indian'?: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (with K. T. Lomawaima, 2006), and Ethnography and Language Policy (Routledge, 2011).

Table of Contents

Dedication

Statement by Miami Tribe of Oklahoma Chief Thomas Gamble

Foreword by Richard E. Littlebear

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Contextualizing Native American LPP: Legal-Political, Demographic, and Sociolinguistic Foundations

2. Conceptualizing Native American LPP: Critical Sociocultural Foundations

3. Native American Languages In and Out of the Safety Zone, 1492-2012

4.Indigenous Literacies, Bilingual Education, and Community Empowerment: The Case of Navajo

5. Language Regenesis in Practice

6. Language in the Lives of Indigenous Youth

7. Planning Language for the Seventh Generation

Appendix

References

Index