Indigenous language learning impacts, challenges and opportunities in Covid-19 times

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ID19001392
AuthorsOnowa Mcivor (0000-0002-0788-0499, University of Victoria, corresponding author), Kari Ab Chew (0000-0003-1229-2437, University of Oklahoma), Kahtehrón ni Iris Stacey (Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project), Kahtehrón:ni Iris Stacey (Kahnewake Education Center, Canada)
Year2020
Volume16
Issue4
Pages409-412
Publication date2020-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1177-1801 • E-ISSN: 1174-1740
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1177180120970930
OpenAlexW3112995159
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited3

In March 2020, the COVID-19 global health crisis caused disruption to the daily lives and regular practices of most human populations. Indigenous language revitalization (ILR) work is often undertaken face-to-face and regularly includes the most elderly populations in our communities. Therefore, ILR activities that were not already online were vastly affected. The authors of this Situation Report are three Indigenous colleagues, scholars, language teachers, learners and co-activists in the on-going efforts toward the reclaiming, maintaining, and reviving of Indigenous languages across the lands now known as Canada and the USA. We describe the early impacts, challenges and foreseeable opportunities this current global health crisis brings to the critical work of continuing Indigenous languages into the future

Economic growth · Indigenous · Indigenous language · Pandemic · Political science · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Social science · Sociology · Engineering · Law · Medicine · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Ecology

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