Indigenous Literacies in the Americas : Language Planning from the Bottom Up.

Intro -- Introduction -- Indigenous literacies in the Americas -- North America -- Teaching and preserving Yup'ik traditional literacy -- Ciulistet and the curriculum of the possible -- Reclaiming Navajo: Language renewal in an American Indian community school -- Literacy for what? Hualapai literacy and language maintenance -- Language revitalization efforts in the Pueblo de Cochiti: Becoming "literate" in an oral society -- Meso America -- Language preservation and publishing -- Experiences in the development of a writing system for Ñuu Savi -- Saving and strengthening indigenous Mexican languages: The CELIAC experience -- Mayan language literacy in Guatemala: A socio-historical overview -- South America -- Quechua literacy and empowerment in Peru -- Literacy and modernization among the Quechua speaking population of Peru -- An experience of indigenous literacy in Peru -- Indigenous politics and native language literacies: Recent shifts in bilingual education policy and practice in Ecuador -- Attitudes of teachers, children and parents towards bilingual intercultural education -- Bringing the language forward: School-based initiatives for Quechua language revitalization in Ecuador and Bolivia -- To Guaranize: A verb actively conjugated by the Bolivian Guaranis -- Conclusion -- Language planning from the bottom up -- Afterword -- Local literacies and vernacular literacies: Implications for national literacy policy -- Index.

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