Indigenous Language Education in Critical Times: Voices of Community Reclamation in the Americas

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Julieta Briseño-Roa Paulina Griñó

Indigenous Language Education in Critical Times

Voices of Community Reclamation in the Americas

Julieta Briseño-Roa, Paulina Griñó, Vanessa Anthony-Stevens , José Antonio Flores Farfán

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Multilingual Matters
15 July 2025

Sociolinguistics; Language Teaching (non-ELT)

Series: Language, Education and Diversity

This book builds a space in which a diversity of voices – Indigenous teachers, activists and committed academics – are foregrounded in the processes of Indigenous education with the goal of Indigenous language reclamation. It decenters state systems of education (e.g. schooling) and instead considers the efforts of teachers (defined broadly), community activists and scholars who are developing initiatives to support Indigenous language practices in, around and beyond schooling, thereby emphasizing diverse processes of language reclamation in complex and varied settings. The authors invite the reader to reconsider language reclamation in the face of climate change and neocolonial exploitation, offering a source of radical hope for the future. Central to the book are narratives regarding community-based collaborations, which subvert the asymmetrical power relations between academia and educational practitioners and activists, and call into question the categories constructed by a top-down approach, as well as the colonial relationships that linguistic anthropology and linguistics have constructed within the spaces and people they ‘study’.

Edited by: Julieta Briseño-Roa, Paulina Griñó, Vanessa Anthony-Stevens, José Antonio Flores Farfán
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781800418394
ISBN 10: 1800418396
Series: Language, Education and Diversity
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 15 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julieta Briseño-Roa is Professor-Researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico. She considers it fundamental to contribute to land-based education as a form of cultural reclamation, defense of the territory and action against the climate catastrophe. Paulina Griñó is Professor in the Facultad de Educación, Universidad Autónoma de Chile. She is part of educational initiatives which reconnect community knowledge with school curricula. Vanessa Anthony-Stevens is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Idaho, USA. Her more than 20-year career in Indigenous education and Tribal Nation-building efforts centers on practices and policies of educational sovereignty. José Antonio Flores Farfán is Professor in the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico. Over several decades he has worked with Indigenous communities to produce materials which vindicate the use of minoritized languages.

Reviews for Indigenous Language Education in Critical Times: Voices of Community Reclamation in the Americas

The Americas are expansive, beautiful, and resilient human and more than human communities. Life is always languaged here, and the authors in this volume bring forward this recognition through lived experience. They share lessons and ideas embedded in powerful stories and narratives. Carefully stewarded by dedicated editors, this collection is a delight to read and an inspiration to remember. * Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, University of Minnesota, USA *