Tribal Languages and the Challenges of Revitalization. Sims, C. P Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 36(1):104–106, 2005.
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Although school- and university-based language programs can help strengthen threatened Indigenous languages, language revitalization at its heart involves reestablishing tradi- tionalfunctions of language use in the context of everyday speaker interactions. The inherent dynamics of Native oral language traditions suggest the limitations of institutions in sup- porting critical language learning activities that are the key to successful language renewal efforts. [American Indian/Indigenous language revitalization, teaching American Indian languages, Pueblo Indian languages]

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