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Wafa Hozien – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2024
Preserving the Navajo language, or "Diné bizaad," is of profound importance for all Indigenous people in the United States, as Navajo is one of the more widely spoken Native languages yet is still facing the early stages of endangerment. Currently, the Navajo Nation, like other tribes, lacks a significant presence of community-based…
Descriptors: Navajo (Nation), Language Maintenance, Community Education, Native Language Instruction
DeCaire, Oherohskon Ryan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In the face of colonial efforts to extinguish Indigenous language and culture, Kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk people) have been working to revitalize Kanien'keha (the Mohawk language) since the 1970s. However, Kanien'keha continues to experience greater speaker loss than gain. Through a comprehensive vitality assessment, this dissertation examines the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Language Instruction, Language Maintenance, Adult Learning
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Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi; Berg, Karianne; Kolberg, Asbjørn – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2021
For an Indigenous population, there is a need for an inclusive educational space from the language and culture srevitalisation perspective. This is especially important during the early years when the basics of the language are formed alongside cultural knowledge. This paper takes a closer look at a South Sámi preschool language learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Preschool Education
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Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Manitowabi, Yvette; Manitowabi, Jacinta – TESOL in Context, 2021
Two Anishnabek kindergarten teachers discuss four principles of Indigenous pedagogies in a project with a university researcher that created a context for children to engage in activities to learn their Anishnabek language and culture, and create positive identities. The university researcher sent a rabbit puppet named Niichii (Friend), who was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Indigenous Populations, Native Language Instruction
Chew, Kari A. B.; Tennell, Courtney – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
As Indigenous scholars committed to Indigenous education in Oklahoma, we use a decolonizing approach to consider how the 39 Indigenous Nations in Oklahoma assert educational sovereignty to sustain Indigenous high school students' linguistic and cultural identities. Seeking to promote education models that sustain and revitalize Indigenous…
Descriptors: Public Schools, American Indian Languages, High School Students, American Indian Culture
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Lowe, Kevin; Tennent, Christine; Moodie, Nikki; Guenther, John; Burgess, Cathie – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
This critical systematic review of Australian research literature provides insights into the aspirations of Indigenous communities to collaborate with schools in establishing local Indigenous language and cultural programmes. This systematic review investigates the body of Australian research into the cultural, social and educational impacts on…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Culturally Relevant Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Pacific Islanders
Shannon Davidson; Mandy Smoker Broaddus; Lymaris Santana – Region 16 Comprehensive Center, 2024
Indigenous methodologies for guiding, advising, and educating children have been in place since time immemorial. Those well-honed approaches to education were built to support whole and healthy individual development while also establishing a lifelong awareness and reverence for community, connection, kinship, and reciprocity. In Western cultures,…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Story Telling, Indigenous Knowledge, Second Language Learning
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Root, Emily; Augustine, Stephen; Snow, Kathy; Doucette, Mary – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
In the winter term of 2016, Cape Breton University launched a revised version of a second year Mi'kmaw Studies course entitled Learning from the Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kmaki (MIKM 2701). This course was designed to be led by local Elders and Knowledge Keepers with facilitation support from university faculty. It was designed by course…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Knowledge
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Paul J. Meighan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Indigenous communities worldwide face threats to their linguistic and epistemic heritage with the unabated spread of dominant colonial languages and global monocultures, such as English and the neoliberal, imperialistic worldview. There is considerable strain on the relatively few Elders and speakers of Indigenous languages to maintain cultures…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
Angelo, Denise; Disbray, Samantha; Singer, Ruth; O'Shannessy, Carmel; Simpson, Jane; Smith, Hilary; Meek, Barbra; Wigglesworth, Gillian – OECD Publishing, 2022
Indigenous peoples have rightful aspirations for their languages and cultures, supported under international conventions, jurisdictional treaties, laws, policies and enquiry recommendations. Additionally, the inclusion of Indigenous languages in education can impact positively on Indigenous students' learning, engagement, identity and well-being,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Academic Achievement, Educational Experience, Outcomes of Education
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Melissa Bishop – OTESSA Journal, 2022
In First Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) communities, Elders are highly regarded as intergenerational transmitters of ancestral language and Indigenous knowledge. Without language revival initiatives, ancestral languages in FNMI communities are at risk of extinction. Leveraging digital technologies while collaborating with Elders can support…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, American Indians, American Indian Languages, Eskimos
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McIvor, Onowa; Ball, Jessica – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019
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 commitments, there is little support for Indigenous language-in-education policy and initiatives. This article describes an inaugural, countrywide,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Language, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance
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Xiong, Weiyan; Jacob, W. James; Ye, Huiyuan – Frontiers of Education in China, 2016
The purpose of this study is to compare Korean and Mongol minorities in the People's Republic of China in terms of their native language preservation and educational experiences at the higher education level, and to investigate differences and similarities between Korean and Mongol minorities' language issues. Content area experts on Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Higher Education, Educational Change
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McCarty, Teresa L.; Nicholas, Sheilah E. – Review of Research in Education, 2014
In this chapter, the authors offer a critical examination of a growing field of educational inquiry and social practice: the reclamation of Indigenous mother tongues. They use the term "reclamation" purposefully to denote that these are languages that have been forcibly subordinated in contexts of colonization. Language reclamation…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Educational Research, Native Language, Language Maintenance
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Debenport, Erin – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2011
After initial instruction in written and spoken Tiwa, young adult participants in the summer language program at San Antonio Pueblo began authoring their own pedagogical materials as a learning activity. Charged with writing pedagogical dialogues to aid in language learning, the students created "the first Native soap opera," as the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Ideology, Adults, Comedy
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