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

Teresa L. McCarty

Published by Multilingual Matters 2013

Language Planning and Policy in Native America

History, Theory, Praxis

Teresa L. McCarty

In the series Bilingual Education & Bilingualism

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847698643

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This book examines the history of language policy by and for Native Americans, and contemporary language revitalization initiatives. The book explores innovative language regenesis projects, the role of Indigenous youth in language reclamation, and prospects for Native American language and culture continuance.

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McCarty Teresa L. :

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 NavajoâRough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling (2002); Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling (2005); âTo Remain an Indianâ: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (with K. T. Lomawaima, 2006), and Ethnography and Language Policy (Routledge, 2011).

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).

Reviews

Idalia Nunez, University of Texas at Austin:

Language Planning and Policy will serve as a valuable resource for scholars interested in establishing research agendas in language policy and planning, education policy, or work with Indigenous communities. McCarty’s theoretical framework provides a resource for understanding how language policy shapes and is shaped by Indigenous communities. Teresa L. McCarty, as a professor and researcher, successfully presents her argument in an attempt to better understand the inequities facing Native communities.

Leanne Hinton, University of California at Berkeley, USA:

McCarty's Language Planning and Policy in Native America is a beautiful testimonial to this historic time when Native American communities are taking control of their own linguistic futures. In contrast to the view of language policy as primarily a top-down set of regulations from various levels of government and authorities, McCarty recognizes the primacy of tribal sovereignity, and puts together a new and exciting approach to LPP in Native America as indigenous and community-driven. This inspired and hopeful volume provides a theoretical analysis of the history of oppression and subsequent reclamation of Native American languages, combined with current case studies and a view to the future through the eyes of indigenous youth. A must-read for community language activists and all those interested in language revitalization.

Tiffany S. Lee, Native American Studies, University of New Mexico, USA:

Grounding her position in the principles of tribal sovereignty, McCarty provides an insightful, thoroughly investigated, and critical examination of the complexities of Native American language rights and change. She deconstructs commonly held perceptions and theoretical positions of language change and re-introduces us to the multifaceted and resilient qualities of Native peoples and their languages in our contemporary world.

David Beaulieu, Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA:

In terms of both the breadth and depth of scholarship Teresa L. McCarty's Language Planning and Policy in Native America is an extraordinary contribution. The work of those in Native language revitalization, the perspectives of a number of academic disciplines as well as education and Native language policy development are uniquely and artfully brought together in this volume by a scholar whose career has had significant involvement and contribution in each area.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Dedication Thomas Gamble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Foreword Richard E. Littlebear Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
1. Contextualizing Native American LPP: Legal–Political, Demographic and Sociolinguistic Foundations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Conceptualizing Native American LPP: Critical Sociocultural Foundations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
3. Native American Languages In and Out of the Safety Zone, 1492–2012 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
4. Indigenous Literacies, Bilingual Education and Community Empowerment: The Case of Navajo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
5. Language Regenesis in Practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6. Language in the Lives of Indigenous Youth Teresa L. McCarty, Mary Eunice Romero-Little, Larisa Warhol and Ofelia Zepeda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
7. Planning Language for the Seventh Generation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Appendix 1: Native American Languages Act of 1990/1992 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Appendix 2: Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act of 2006 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Appendix 3: 2 December 2011 Executive Order on American Indian/Alaska Native Education Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Author Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Pages
- Main content: 280
Keywords: language policy; language planning; Native America; language education; Indigenous language

eBook

Published: February 19, 2013
ISBN: 9781847698643