{"title":"Breathing life back into the stories: Creating the circle of Indigenous languages website","authors":"Charlotte Ross, J. Greyeyes, Onowa McIvor","doi":"10.18357/wj161202120290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/wj161202120290","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an innovative project undertaken to create a website to share historical recordings of the nēhiyaw (Cree), Nahkawe, and Michif languages of Saskatchewan. Each author played a role in the delivery of a graduate program that took place simultaneously alongside the creation of the Circle of Indigenous Languages (COIL) website. This paper explores the importance of Indigenous networking and a collective consciousness towards Indigenous language revitalization as neither project would have happened without the spark and interconnection of the other. Weaving together our language experiences, we highlight the strength of aligned synergies. This paper also addresses critical issues pertaining to cultural continuity for Indigenous Peoples by embracing technology. Therefore, the greatest impact of the COIL project was to koskopita (reawaken) the stories from inaccessible formats in private collections. The project of digitization, categorization, and website creation provided access to old stories, and therefore “whole language,” now shared in the public domain. Our journey with technology and the experience gained can be used by other language communities to support Indigenous language documentation.","PeriodicalId":229683,"journal":{"name":"WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship","volume":"387 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126737772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation, reflection, and future directions: An introduction to the special issue on Indigenous language revitalization","authors":"Kari A. B. Chew, Onowa McIvor","doi":"10.18357/wj1202120272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/wj1202120272","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction","PeriodicalId":229683,"journal":{"name":"WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133396657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ryan DeCaire, Naupaka Damienne Joaquin, Nicholas Lum, Ian Nāhulu Maioho
{"title":"ʻAʻaliʻi and wáhta oterontonnì:'a: Symbols of Indigenous innovation for linguistic and cultural resilience","authors":"Ryan DeCaire, Naupaka Damienne Joaquin, Nicholas Lum, Ian Nāhulu Maioho","doi":"10.18357/wj1202120292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/wj1202120292","url":null,"abstract":"Like the humble ʻaʻaliʻi shrub growing abundantly throughout the Hawaiian island chain or the gentle wáhta oterontonnì:'a (sugar maple sapling) native to the Haudenosaunee territory in the north-eastern woodlands of North America, both adapting and thriving in different and extreme environments, Indigenous people, amidst foreign pressures to change, are innovating in order to adapt and ensure the survival of their unique languages and cultures. This article examines how Indigenous people, with focus on Hawaiian and Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk people), are maintaining linguistic and cultural resilience through innovation, something that Indigenous people have arguably been doing since long before the arrival of colonists to their territories. All authors (three Hawaiian and one Kanien’kehá:ka) of this article are doctoral candidates in the Hawaiian and Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, Ka Haka ̒ Ula o Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language. Through autoethnography and personal interviews, this article highlights Indigenous innovation within four areas of practice: Hawaiian translation and interpretation, Hawaiian song and music, Indigenous food sovereignty, and Kanien’kéha (Mohawk language) documentation. For the purposes of this article, Indigenous innovation is summarized as innovation through retrospection, making informed decisions for the future based on the past. This article also brings to light obstacles and possible fears surrounding innovation due to the debate between purism (maintaining traditional knowledge and practice) and innovation (creation for adaptation to modern times). Just as the ʻaʻaliʻi or the wáhta oterontonnì:'a remain firmly rooted yet supple in their branches, allowing them to twist and 1 Correspondence: Ryan DeCaire, Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo; University of Toronto, ryan.decaire@utoronto.ca DeCaire, Joaquin, Lum & Maioho WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship 377 bend with the ever-changing winds, Indigenous people must follow suit in order to ensure linguistic and cultural resilience.","PeriodicalId":229683,"journal":{"name":"WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116333809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Buckskin, Taylor Tipu Power-Smith, Jaylon Pila Newchurch, Tempestt Sumner-Lovett, P. Finlay, Chester Schultz, Rob Amery
{"title":"Innovative strategies for reintroducing a sleeping language: How a community-university partnership supports the revitalization of Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia","authors":"J. Buckskin, Taylor Tipu Power-Smith, Jaylon Pila Newchurch, Tempestt Sumner-Lovett, P. Finlay, Chester Schultz, Rob Amery","doi":"10.18357/wj161202120275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/wj161202120275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229683,"journal":{"name":"WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship","volume":"24 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120852517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Wiinge chi-baapinizi geniin ode: It really makes my heart laugh”: Language, culture, identity, and urban language revitalization","authors":"Lindsay A. Morcom","doi":"10.18357/wj1202120286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/wj1202120286","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229683,"journal":{"name":"WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116186926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ganggali Garral Djuyalgu (Weaving Story): Indigenous language research, the insider–outsider experience and weaving Aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and doing into academia","authors":"A. Radley, T. Ryan, Kylie Dowse","doi":"10.18357/wj161202120293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/wj161202120293","url":null,"abstract":"Aboriginal weaving is used as a method to explore new understandings and extend on the notions of insider–outsider in the research space. Just as weaving requires different strands of fibres, the insider–outsider researcher finds ways to enable the co-existence of differing authorities, roles, and responsibilities as community Elder and emerging researcher alongside the development of culturally resonant research approaches and methodologies. This paper weaves together strands that are a representation of Aboriginal knowing, being, and doing: cultural practices that influence Indigenous language revitalisation research. As an Indigenous Australian researcher, community Elder, language teacher and activist, the lead author Radley is experienced in the complexity of performing multiple roles while undertaking research. She relays the tensions inherent in an insider– outsider researcher identity through her research into the revitalised Gathang language (Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia). Aboriginal academics, co-authors Ryan and Dowse explore Indigenising academic spaces, the politics of elevating Aboriginal protocols to transform research ethics, and the importance of listening and telling our stories in our own ways. Together, the authors interweave their stories to demonstrate partnerships between research and culture and speak of the importance of Indigenising the academy.","PeriodicalId":229683,"journal":{"name":"WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131229522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous language technologies: Anti-colonial oases in a colonizing (digital) world","authors":"Nathan Brinklow","doi":"10.18357/wj1202120288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/wj1202120288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229683,"journal":{"name":"WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132192351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kari A. B. Chew, S. Nicholas, C. Galla, Keiki Kawaiʻaeʻa, Wesley Y. Leonard, Wilson Silva
{"title":"Storying an interconnected web of relationships in Indigenous language reclamation work and scholarship","authors":"Kari A. B. Chew, S. Nicholas, C. Galla, Keiki Kawaiʻaeʻa, Wesley Y. Leonard, Wilson Silva","doi":"10.18357/wj1202120291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/wj1202120291","url":null,"abstract":"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 community language reclamation efforts and broader resurgence movements. Adapting Archibald’s (2008) concept of storywork— experiential narratives that privilege a cultural lens—we take a dialogic approach for scholar-educators to story their Indigenous language work within a web of interrelated relationships. From our positionalities as Chikashsha, Hopisino, Kanaka Hawaiʻi, myaamia, and Brazilian scholars, we ask and reflect on the following questions: Who are we storying with and for? What does language work look like in our community contexts and academic collaborations? How do we define cultural praxis in our work? What principles inform and emerge from our collective work? How do we co-construct knowledge that will sustain our language work and relationships? This reflective and reflexive process engages and maintains a continual balance of the cumulative past and present toward the future. Foremost, we aspire to act and work consistently in ways that are good for our peoples and communities, which includes a view of the research we undertake as purposeful journeying (Hill & Wilkinson, 2014) within our academic contexts and scholarship.","PeriodicalId":229683,"journal":{"name":"WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115651177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Te tupu o te rākau: Stages of Māori medium education","authors":"G. Stewart, Kīmai Tocker","doi":"10.18357/wj161202120277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/wj161202120277","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229683,"journal":{"name":"WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122539052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Everyday stories in a forest: Multimodal meaning-making with Ojibwe Elders, young people, language, and place","authors":"M. Hermes, Meixi, Mel M. Engman, James McKenzie","doi":"10.18357/wj1202120289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/wj1202120289","url":null,"abstract":"Expanding efforts in Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation (e.g., Henne-Ochoa et al., 2020; Leonard, 2008, 2019; McIvor, 2020) highlight the ecology of relations that language is embedded in across communities and land. A critically important aspect of understanding these relations is a language’s “livingness” in place; that is, the context of where the language emerged and where the language is intertwined and has lived within lands and stories for generations. Taking up this intersection of language, land, and story, our paper examines the multimodal language of storying the land in Ojibwe in episodes from video-recorded intergenerational (Elders and youth) walks in the woods that were a part of an Indigenous languages documentation project. We focused on interactional episodes involving storywork (Archibald, 2008) and conducted interaction analysis (Jordan & Henderson, 1995). Indigenous scholarship (e.g., Noori, 2013; Simpson, 2014) articulates the importance of stories as Indigenous theory, and this paper builds on this work, illustrating how everyday storying and walking on lands (Marin & Bang, 2018) are rich contexts for language learning and reclamation.","PeriodicalId":229683,"journal":{"name":"WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115563377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}