Browsing by Subject "Language, General."
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Ceremony in miniature: Kiowa oral storytelling and narrative event.
(2001)Everytime Kiowas tell stories they invoke a cultural and tribal framework their audience(s) can relate to in a meaningful way. Like any cultural group, Kiowas recontextualize ideas and themes from earlier contexts that ... -
Cherokee and Dakota language letters: Illustrations of nineteenth century discourse.
(1999)This dissertation concerns nineteenth century Cherokee and Dakota discourse, exemplified by the individual writers of native language letters. The first chapter outlines the goals, the data, and the methods of this ... -
Chikashsha alhihaat Chikashshanompa' anompoli katihma: Chickasaws are still speaking Chikashshanompa'
(2022)Holisso mako̲ anompa toklo' ishtiiholissochitok, Chikashshanompa' micha Naahollimanompa'. Hopaakikaash Chikashsha mó̲ma'at i̲yaakni' sipokni' áyya'shattook. 1837aash Naahollo i̲naalhpisa'at pomokloshi' wihat kanallichittook. ... -
Claiming Space: An Autoethnographic Study of Indigenous Graduate Students Engaged in Language Reclamation
(2015)This article explores the critical role of an emerging generation of Indigenous scholars and activists in ensuring the continuity of their endangered heritage languages. Using collaborative autoethnography as a research ... -
Enacting Hope through Narratives of Indigenous Language and Culture Reclamation
(2019)In globalizing landscapes, Indigenous ways of knowing and being persist in their connectedness to specific geographies, even as they are transformed by migrations, both forced and voluntary, and dynamic exchanges. This ... -
Family at the Heart of Chickasaw Language Reclamation
(American Indian Quarterly, 2015)The Chickasaw Nation faces rapid and unprecedented decline of its language, Chikashshanompa'. As a result, community members are growing increasingly aware of the importance of the language to identity and culture, and ... -
Hear Our Languages, Hear Our Voices: Storywork as Theory and Praxis in Indigenous-Language Reclamation
(2018)Storywork provides an epistemic, pedagogical, and methodological lens through which to examine Indigenous language reclamation in practice. We theorize the meaning of language reclamation in diverse Indigenous communities ... -
Reading readers: An examination of the aesthetic reading events of four experienced readers of narrative fiction reading self-selected novels.
(1997)This investigation focused on (1) transactions between the readers and the novels they had chosen, (2) the readers' purposes and processes, (3) and the contexts, experiential and socio-cultural, that influence these readers ... -
Repurposing the Comparative Method for Pawnee Language and Dialect Revitalization
(2016-08)A member of the Caddoan language family, Pawnee is a nearly extinct language with few living fluent speakers. However, there is an active, community-led revitalization movement. Community members involved in revitalization ... -
Storying an interconnected web of relationships in Indigenous language reclamation work and scholarship
(2021)Indigenous language work is manifested in a diversity of community-led responses of resilience and persistence. Indigenous persons who are reclaiming their languages have entered academia with goals of contributing to ... -
Weaving Words: Conceptualizing Language Reclamation through a Culturally-Significant Metaphor
(Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2019)When the Creator called us to our homelands to become a distinct people, Chickasaws received the gift of our language—Chikashshanompa'—with which to speak to each other, the land, the plants, the animals, and the Creator. ... -
With music strong by Lukas Foss :
(1997)In 1988 Lukas Foss composed a choral/orchestral work for Margaret Hawkins on the occasion of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. This new work, With Music Strong, is based on texts by Walt Whitman ... -
Words of encouragement to Indigenous language advocates during the pandemic
(2021-10)This video offers words of encouragement to Indigenous language advocates during the COVID-19 pandemic.