Reclaiming Indigenous Languages: A Reconsideration of the Roles and Responsib…

In this chapter, we offer a critical examination of a growing field of educational inquiry and social practice: the reclamation of Indigenous mother tongues. We use the term reclamation purposefully to denote that these are languages that have been forcibly subordinated in contexts of colonization (Hinton, 2011; Leonard, 2007).Language reclamation includes revival of a language no longer spoken…