Indigenous Language Articles?

[Bernadette Santamaria]

Shannon:  I have taught White Mountain Apache language at the UofA in the
Critical Languages Program. There's not a lot of grammar books, curricula,
or documentation on the Western Apache languages and everyone seems to
believe that all Apache groups have one language which is untrue.  I would
be willing to respond to questions that you may have if I can answer. Our
languages should be included in any discussions on Indigenous languages of
the US because the Apache nations of several states, if populations are
combined as other tribes do for the census, are among the top ten in totals
and also, the Southwestern tribes are the core groups that comprise the
Indigenous languages that are still used among their children, a common
measure often utilized to describe languages that are classified in the "A"
category (or stronger than others) and that have younger fluent speakers
than other Indigenous groups.

Berni

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:50 AM, s.t. bischoff <bischoff.st at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'll be teaching a graduate seminar on languages of North America (very
> general in scope at this point) and am looking for articles to give the
> students to read. I'm open to anything. If you have any ideas I'd love to
> hear them. Also, if anyone has taught such a course and has suggestions,
> they would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Shannon
>
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