Spanning Indigenous settings in Africa, the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Central Asia and the Nordic countries, this book examines the multifaceted language reclamation work underway by Indigenous peoples throughout the world. Exploring political, historical, ideological, and pedagogical issues, the book foregrounds the decolonizing aims of contemporary Indigenous language movements inside and outside of schools. Many authors explore language reclamation in their own communities. Together, the authors call for expanded discourses on language planning and policy that embrace Indigenous ways of knowing and forefront grassroots language reclamation efforts as a force for Indigenous sovereignty, social justice, and self-determination. This volume will be of interest to scholars, educators and students in applied linguistics, Ethnic/Indigenous Studies, education, second language acquisition, and comparative-international education, and to a broader audience of language educators, revitalizers and policymakers.

A world of Indigenous languages : resurgence, reclamation, revitalization and resilience /Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas and Gillian Wigglesworth -- Configuring language(s) and speakers : the history and politics of an aboriginal ethnolinguistic identity in the Yukon, Canada / Barbra A. Meek -- Language policy in post-apartheid South Africa : an evaluation / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu -- The impact of 'culturalcy' in Nga Kura a Iwi tribal schools in Aotearoa/NZ : ma tatou, e ai ki a tatou = For us, by us, our way / Cath Rau, Waimatao Murphy and Pem Bird -- Media and technology : revitalizing Latin American Indigenous languages in cyberspace / Serafín M. Coronel-Molina -- Language vitality in and out of school in a remote Indigenous Australian context / Inge Kral and Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis -- Task-based language learning for Ojibwe : a case study of two intermediate adult language learners / Mary Hermes and Kendall A. King -- Strengthening Indigenous languages through language technology : the case of Aanaar Saami in Finland / Marja-Liisa Olthuis and Ciprian-Virgil Gerstenberger -- Without the language, how Hopi are you? : Hopi cultural and linguistic identity construction in contemporary linguistic ecologies / Sheilah E. Nicholas -- Transformation from the bottom up : ideological analysis with Indigenous youth and language policy justice in Nepal / Prem Phyak -- Language key holders for Mexicano : the case of an intergenerational community in Coatepec de los Costales, Mexico / Rosalva Mojica Lagunas.