Teaching Indigenous Languages  

Teaching Indigenous Languages


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Important Information

Conferences & Institutes

Indigeous Language News

Some Basics of Indigenous Language Revitalization

Maintaining & Renewing Native Languages

Rationale & Needs for Keeping Languages Alive

Status of Indigenous Languages

Teaching Methods

Selected Resources

Purchasing Information

Havasupai Girls This web site is an outgrowth of a series of annual conferences started in 1994 at Northern Arizona University to help achieve the goals of the Native American Languages Act of 1990, which makes it government policy to promote, protect, and preserve the Indigenous languages of the United States of America. The conferences focus on the linguistic, educational, social, and political issues related to the survival of the endangered Indigenous languages of the world. The 15th Annual Symposium was held on May 2 & 3, 2008 at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. The 16th Annual Symposium is scheduled tentatively for April 30 to May 2, 2009 at Arizona State University and the 17th Symposium is scheduled to be at the University of Oregon on June 17-20, 2010. To receive conference updates and related information join the Indigenous-L List.

At the heart of this site are over a hundred full text papers from the 1994 through 2003 Stabilizing Indigenous Languages conferences as well as the 2000 Learn in Beauty conference and the 1989 Native American Language Issues Institute published in seven books. This site also has 54 columns from the newsletter of the National Association for Bilingual Education, articles, and other materials. There is a subject index, a language/tribe index, and links to related sites, including an American Indian Education site. Please direct comments or questions about this site to Jon Reyhner at Jon.Reyhner@nau.edu.

NEW LINKS
International Mother Language Day February 21, 2008
2008, International Year of Languages UNESCO, United Nations
Protecting Native American Languages and Culture Voice of America 12/25/07
Rescuing Critically Endangered Native American Languages Summer 2007, Cultural Survival Quarterly
Learning Ojibway Richard Wagamese, Indian Country Today, 7/11/07
Language Summit Struggles Against 'Slow-Motion Massacre' Indian Country Today 6/8/07
Discovering What To Do, and How to Save Our Languages News From Indian Country

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