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13 - Promises, Acts, and Action

Indigenous Language Politics in Canada

from Part III - The Canadian Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2019

By
Donna Patrick
Edited by
Thomas Ricento
Thomas Ricento
Affiliation:
University of Calgary
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Summary

This chapter addresses the current political climate in Canada with respect to language politics through an examination of historical settler-colonial and Indigenous relations. The focus is the interplay, and the inherent contradictions, between the state and Indigenous language interests. This includes a consideration of language and education rights, policies, and moves to reconciliation on behalf of state and Indigenous actors. The diverse goals and outcomes of Indigenous educational policies and practices will be examined with a focus on the Canadian Arctic, the role of Indigenous land-based pedagogies, and the necessary conceptualization and reaffirmation of languages as unbounded, action-oriented practices that resist objectification and enumeration.

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Arctic languagesdecolonizationendangered languagesIndigenousInuktutland-based pedagogieslanguage enumerationlanguage rightsNunavutreconciliationstandardization
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Language Politics and Policies
Perspectives from Canada and the United States
 , pp. 244 - 262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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