How to Keep Your Language Alive

How to Keep Your Language AliveHow to Keep Your Language Alive is a manual for students of all languages, from Yurok to Yiddish, Washoe to Welsh, complete with exercises that canand shouldbe done in the most ordinary of settings.

I can live towards that end

when a man is described as harmless

Many of the English translations of Indigenous languages that we commonly use today have been handed down from colonial missionaries whose intent was to fundamentally alter or destroy prior Indigenous knowledge and praxis

and histories that are unique to the Tlingit community

this theory of worldview can be employed to help root out the reproduction of colonial culture in Indigenous languages and can be a useful addition to the repertoire of tools needed to return to life-giving relationships with our environment

whose shadows are equally capable of protecting encounters between boys learning to become

She investigates how museums can honor an Indigenous worldview and way of knowing

In Life’s Journey—Zuya

devised a clever plan to steal fire

And like her great-grandfather Sully was fascinated by celebrity: over two decades

and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands

and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home