Hear Our Languages, Hear Our Voices: Storywork as Theory and Praxis in Indigenous-Language Reclamation
Author
McCarty, Teresa L.Nicholas, Sheilah E.
Chew, Kari A. B.
Diaz, Natalie G.
Leonard, Wesley Y.
White, Louellyn
Affiliation
Univ Arizona, Coll Educ, Teaching Learning & Sociocultural StudiesUniv Arizona, Coll Educ, Amer Indian Studies
Univ Arizona, Coll Educ, Indigenous Teacher Educ Project
Issue Date
2018-03-16
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Hear Our Languages, Hear Our Voices: Storywork as Theory and Praxis in Indigenous-Language Reclamation Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas, Kari A. B. Chew, Natalie G. Diaz, Wesley Y. Leonard, and Louellyn White Daedalus 2018 147:2, 160-172Journal
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
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 based on firsthand narratives of Chickasaw, Mojave, Miami, Hopi, Mohawk, Navajo, and Native Hawaiian language reclamation. Language reclamation is not about preserving the abstract entity language, but is rather about voice, which encapsulates personal and communal agency and the expression of Indigenous identities, belonging, and responsibility to self and community. Storywork - firsthand narratives through which language reclamation is simultaneously described and practiced - shows that language reclamation simultaneously refuses the dispossession of Indigenous ways of knowing and refuses past, present, and future generations in projects of cultural continuance. Centering Indigenous experiences sheds light on Indigenous community concerns and offers larger lessons on the role of language in well-being, sustainable diversity, and social justice.Note
6 month embargo; published online: 16 March 2018ISSN
0011-52661548-6192
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Final published versionAdditional Links
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/DAED_a_00499ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1162/DAED_a_00499