Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism: Language Identity, Ideology, and Practice in Dynamic Cultural Worlds

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Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book takes a close, nuanced look at Indigenous youth bi/multilingualism across diverse cultural and linguistic settings, drawing out comparisons, contrasts, and important implications for language planning and policy and for projects designed to curtail language loss. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars with longstanding ties to language planning efforts in diverse Indigenous communities examine language policy and planning as de facto and de jure – as covert and overt, bottom-up and top-down. This approach illuminates crosscutting themes of language identity and ideology, cultural conflict, and linguistic human rights as youth negotiate these issues within rapidly changing sociolinguistic contexts. A distinctive feature of the book is its chapters and commentaries by Indigenous scholars writing about their own communities. This landmark volume stands alone in offering a look at diverse Indigenous youth in multiple endangered language communities, new theoretical, empirical, and methodological insights, and lessons for intergenerational language planning in dynamic sociocultural contexts. Cover Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1: Beyond Endangerment: Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism 2 Genealogies of Language Loss and Recovery—Native Youth Language Practices and Cultural Continuance 3 Just Keep Expanding Outwards: Embodied Space as Cultural Critique in the Life and Work of a Navajo Hip Hop Artist 4 “Being” Hopi by “Living” Hopi—Redefining and Reasserting Cultural and Linguistic Identity: Emergent Hopi Youth Ideologies 5 Youth Linguistic Survivance in Transforming Settings: A Yup’ik Example 6 “I Didn’t Know You Knew Mexicano!”: Shifting Ideologies, Identities, and Ambivalence among Former Youth in Tlaxcala, Mexico 7 Critical Language Awareness among Native Youth in New Mexico 8 Igniting a Youth Language Movement: Inuit Youth as Agents of Circumpolar Language Planning 9 Efforts of the Ree-volution: Revitalizing Arikara Language in an Endangered Language Context 10 Commentary: A Hawaiian Revitalization Perspective on Indigenous Youth and Bilingualism 11 Commentary: Indigenous Youth Bilingualism from a Yup’ik Perspective 12 Commentary: En/countering Indigenous Bi/Multilingualism About the Contributors Permissions Author Index Subject Index