ILAT Update- cross-border policy perspective

[Haley De Korne]

In the spirit of collaboration across borders & celebrating progress in indigenous language education policies, here's a link that might be of interest:
Indigenous language education policy: Supporting community-controlled immersion
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1721
It's a study I recently completed looking at policies in Canada & the US, and how they can support (or prevent) indigenous language education.  It's great to see more and more states passing supportive policies, as in California.  Hopefully the momentum will continue!

Haley

"Language is not merely a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules.  It is a flash of the human spirit, the means by which the soul of each particular culture reaches into the material world.  Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem of spiritual possibilities."

Wade Davis

--- On Tue, 10/13/09, phil cash cash <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU> wrote:

From: phil cash cash <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: [ILAT] ILAT Update
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 5:59 PM

Thanks Rolland.  I imagine the grassroots in CA are strong & active but
need
the same visibility as many are in need of here in the US.  Besides some very
important early language revitalization studies have emerged
out of First Nations community-based efforts, most of which goes
uncited/unrecognized in the US literature on endangered language
advocacy.   Our networks need strengthening and some form of greater
collaboration would be a key important step!  Phil


Quoting
Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca>:



> Congratulations Phil...that is great but I find Canadian involvement a

> bit embarrassing since we have such a great need for collaboration.

>

> Maybe Canadians need to review their parochial views of cultural and

> linguistic developments. We need a lot of work toward the kind of

> legislation just passed in California to allow Tribes to determine their

> own experts by their own set of credentials...something I have been

> proclaiming for the past 38 years. Our most successful language

> retention program when I was teaching elementary school was to have the

> language speakers come into the classroom and converse with the students

> in their own language. Many of the older and even some of the younger

> people spoke very little or no English. It was great. We even wrote our

> own reading materials in the local phonetic system as well as English.

>

> -------

> wahjeh

> rolland nadjiwon

>

>

>

> phil cash cash wrote:

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