The Language Warrior's Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds

The Language Warrior's Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the OddsAcross North America, dedicated language warriors are powering an upswell, a resurgence, a revitalization of indigenous languages and cultures. Through deliberate suppression and cultural destruction, the five hundred languages spoken on the continent before contact have dwindled to about 150. Their ongoing survival depends on immediate, energetic interventions. Anton Treuer has been at the forefront of the battle to revitalize Ojibwe for many years.

and as friend to the late Keewaydinoquay

as a vessel to save

Shockingly

children's books

Tanya Tagaq explores a world where the distinctions between good and evil

Apache in the Southwest

game and fish

Glossaries provide translations from Dakota to English and back again

indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard

Filled with anecdotes

so does the death toll due to sickness and despair

Jacklight and Baptism of Desire