Native American Language Ideologies: Beliefs, Practices, and Struggles in Indian Country

Description

Beliefs and feelings about language vary dramatically within and across NativeAmerican cultural groups and are an acknowledged part of the processes oflanguage shift and language death. This volume samples the language ideologiesof a wide range of Native American communitiesA[a–afrom the Canadian Yukon toGuatemalaA[a–ato show their role in sociocultural transformation.
These studies take up such active issues as A[a–AinsidernessA[a–? in Cherokee languageideologies, contradictions of space-time for the Northern Arapaho, languagesocialization and Paiute identity, and orthography choices and language renewalamong the Kiowa. The authorsA[a–aincluding members of indigenous speech communitieswho participate in language renewal effortsA[a–adiscuss not only NativeAmericansA[a–a[ conscious language ideologies but also the often-revealing relationshipbetween these beliefs and other more implicit realizations of language uses.