“Until I Became a Professional, I Was Not, Consciously, Indigenous”: One Intercultural Bilingual Educator’s Trajectory in Indigenous Language Revitalization

The Teaching of Spanish as a Second Language in an Indigenous Bilingual Intercultural Curriculum

This paper reports on the implementation of an ambitious bilingual instructional programme in the P’urhepecha-speaking region of Michoacán state in Mexico, the Meseta Tarasca. A curriculum of indigenous language preservation and cultural affirmation, overturning the previous Spanish-only programme, has been developed by a group of indigenous teachers in two P’urhepecha elementary schools, ‘Migu...

Bilingual intercultural education in Ecuador : education as a means of language revitalization

Collecting Bilingual Audio in Remote Indigenous Communities

Most of the world’s languages are under-resourced, and most under-resourced languages lack a writing system and literary tradition. As these languages fall out of use, we lose important sources of data that contribute to our understanding of human language. The first, urgent step is to collect and orally translate a large quantity of spoken language. This can be digitally archived and later tra...

Bilingual Discourse Markers in Indigenous Languages

This review of research considers the occurrence and function of Spanish discourse markers and other particles in indigenous speech. I discuss important research that has examined these phenomena and refer to studies of bilingual discourse markers in other non-indigenous language contact situations to address unresolved issues concerning the form and function of these particles in indigenous la...

Integrating Professional and Indigenous Therapies

The authors present a narrative case study of an urban American Indian male college student who integrated Indigenous and professional therapies during an acute period of stress, loss, and depression. As the first published case of an American Indian in an urban context, this article expands on previous clinical cases by focusing on the client’s perspective relative to his own conceptions of he...