Teaching Indigenous Languages

Copies of the books listed below can be purchased from Jon Reyhner, College of Education, P.O. Box 5774, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5774. Phone 928 523 0580; FAX 928 523 1929. E-mail Jon Reyhner at Jon.Reyhner@nau.edu. Checks, money orders, and purchase orders should be made out to "Northern Arizona University." All payments must be in U.S. funds. Credit card orders are also accepted. 15% discount on orders of 5 or more.

1. Indigenous Language Revitalization includes speeches and papers presented at the 2007 and 2008 Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposiums. 222 pages. ISBN 0-9670554-4-X.
2. Nurturing Native Languages includes speeches and papers from the 2001, 2002, and 2003 Stabilizing Indigenous Languages conferences. Topics include Native language immersion, using technology, and other issues related to the revitalization of Indigenous languages. 190 pages. ISBN 0-9670554-3-1.
3. Indigenous Languages Across the Community contains 27 papers describing indigenous language efforts in Canada, the USA, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Russia, and the Caribbean. They are divided into six sections: Broad perspectives and policy, language and whole community development, educational advances, languages and literacy development, the media, and the meeting of Inuit and Yupik participants. 263 pp. ISBN 0-9670554-2-3.
4. Learn in Beauty: Indigenous Education for a New Century is a 160 page collection of 11 papers from the Second Annual Learn in Beauty Conference held in Flagstaff, Arizona, in June 2000. A review in the 2002 issue of Language Teaching and Research (Vol. 6, #1) notes "I welcome this book as one attempt to bring together a wide range of aboriginal and non-aboriginal voices. Those voices include university professors, school board directors, and teachers of indigenous languages . I will use this collection to inform, clarify, and inspire my own teaching ,to affirm my own observations , and most importantly to bring other aboriginal voices to my students who are dealing with the same issues, often in isolation and with few resources. For current and future teachers, this volume will be a useful aid in assessing their own situations and in making their own informed choices." ISBN 0-9670554-1-5.
   
5. Revitalizing Indigenous Languages is a 160 page collection of 11 papers from the Fifth Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium held in Louisville, Kentucky, in May 1998. ISBN 0-9670554-0-7. The Fall 2000 issue of the Indigenous Nations Studies Journal describes this book in a review as "an important resource for scholars and the general public" offering "a rich series of organized efforts directed toward the preservation of Indigenous languages undergoing shift" (p. 124).
   
6. Teaching Indigenous Languages is a 323 page collection of 25 papers presented at the Fourth Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium "Sharing Effective Language Renewal Practices" held in May 1997 at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. The conference brought together nearly 300 indigenous language experts, teachers, and community activists to share information on how indigenous languages can best be taught at home and at school. ISBN 0-9624990-3-X Go to brief overview of Teaching Indigenous Languages
   
7. Stabilizing Indigenous Languages is the 232 page proceedings of the First and Second Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposiums. An essay review of Stabilizing Indigenous Languages and Teaching Indigenous Languages was published in Vol. 11, No. 2, 1988 issue of the journal Language, Culture, and Curriculum. The reviewer wrote "Cantoni's and Reyhner's volumes are a treasure trove of ideas and materials.... The two books should be viewed as companion volumes." ISBN 0-9624990-1-3