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Author Nevins, M. Eleanor, author.

Title Lessons from Fort Apache : beyond language endangerment and maintenance / M. Eleanor Nevins ; with a new foreword by the author, Cline Griggs, and Mona Eleando
Edition New edition
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 265 pages) : illustrations
Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Cover Art Notes -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Indigenous Languages and the Mediation of Communities -- 3. Learning to Listen -- 4. They Live in Lonesome Dove -- 5. Stories in the Moment of Encounter -- 6. What No Coyote Story Means -- 7. "Some 'No No' and Some 'Yes'" -- 8. Sustainability -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Index
Summary Lessons from Fort Apache is an ethnography of Indigenous language dynamics on the Fort Apache reservation in Arizona that reveals important implications for both North American and global concerns about language endangerment
Bibliography Includes blibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 01, 2024)
Subject Apache Indians -- Arizona -- Fort Apache Indian Reservation -- Languages
Apache Indians -- Arizona -- San Carlos Indian Reservation -- Languages
Endangered languages.
Language maintenance.
Ethnology.
Anthropological linguistics.
Apache Indians -- Social life and customs
anthropological linguistics.
Form Electronic book
Author Griggs, Cline, contributor
Eleando, Mona, contributor
ISBN 9781496237675
1496237676