Creating Official Language Policy from Local Practice: The Example of the Native American Languages Act 1990/1992

Autor/in	Warhol, Larisa
Titel	Creating Official Language Policy from Local Practice: The Example of the Native American Languages Act 1990/1992
Quelle	In: Language Policy, 11 (2012) 3, S.235-252 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1568-4555
DOI	10.1007/s10993-012-9248-5
Schlagwörter	Language Planning; American Indians; Official Languages; Public Policy; Federal Legislation; American Indian History; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachwechsel; American Indian; Indianer; Office language; Amtssprache; Öffentliche Ordnung; Bundesrecht; USA
Abstract	This research explores the development of landmark federal language policy in the United States: the Native American Languages Act of 1990/1992 (NALA). Overturning more than two centuries of United States American Indian policy, NALA established the federal role in preserving and protecting Native American languages. Indigenous languages in the United States are currently experiencing unprecedented language shift and NALA is a primary federal resource for Native American language programs. This research examines the local and national contexts and interests in which NALA developed from a grass-roots Native American language movement in the 1980s. The story of NALA stands as a powerful example of traditionally disenfranchised peoples transforming power relationships and creating language policy to support their language education practices and goals. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10