• Indigenous Bilingual and Revitalization-Immersion Education in Canada and the USA 

  McIvor, Onowa; McCarty, Teresa L. (Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Bilingual and Multilingual Education, 2017)

  The sociolinguistic landscape in Native North America is defined by the combined realities of language loss and reclamation. In these contexts there is an overwhelming trend toward revitalization-immersion education ...
• Introduction from Promising Practices in Indigenous Teacher Education 

  Rodríguez de France, Maria del Carmen; Whitinui, Paul; McIvor, Onowa (Promising Practices in Indigenous Teacher Education, 2018)

  The need to re-launch who we are as Indigenous peoples working in Indigenously involved Teacher Education has never been greater. We also live in an exciting time of rapid change, growth and global opportunity. This ...
• Beyond the Classroom: The Impact of a Required Indigenous Education Course in the Lives of Pre-service Teachers 

  Rodríguez de France, Maria del Carmen; Scully, Alexa; McIvor, Onowa (Promising Practices in Indigenous Teacher Education, 2018)

  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC, 2015) released in June 2015 marked a pivotal moment in the history of education in Canada. The report included 94 calls ‘Calls to action’ that stressed the importance ...
• Publish or Perish: Māori, Pāsifika, and International Indigenous Scholars’ Critical Contribution to Public Debates Through the Invited NZARE Symposium, International Organisations Session, AERA 2017, San Antonio, Texas 

  Kēpa, Mere; Manu’atu, Linitā; Stephens, Cheryl; McIvor, Onowa; Kaimikaua, Charmaine; Whitinui, Paul (New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2018-07)

  The commentary centres on the preparation and collaboration of Māori, Tongan, nehiyaw, and Native Hawaiian cognoscenti for AERA 2017 (Kēpa et al. in International Organisation Sessions at American Education Research ...
• Lighting a Fire: Community-Based Delivery of a University Indigenous-Language Teacher Education Program 

  McIvor, Onowa; Rosborough, Trish; McGregor, Catherine; Marinakis, Aliki (Promising Practices in Indigenous Teacher Education, 2018)
• Enacting Indigenous Language and Cultural Reclamation across Geographies and Positionalities 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Anthony-Stevens, Vanessa; LeClair-Diaz, Amanda; Nicholas, Sheilah E.; Sobotta, Angel; Stevens, Philip (Transmotion, 2019)

  In globalizing landscapes, Indigenous ways of knowing and being persist in their connectedness to specific geographies, even as they are transformed by migrations, both forced and voluntary, and dynamic exchanges. This ...
• Hear Our Languages, Hear Our Voices: Storywork as Theory and Praxis in Indigenous-Language Reclamation 

  McCarty, Teresa L.; Nicholas, Sheilah E.; Chew, Kari A. B.; Diaz, Natalie G.; Leonard, Wesley Y.; White, Louellyn (Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2018)

  Storywork provides an epistemic, pedagogical, and methodological lens through which to examine Indigenous language reclamation in practice. We theorize the meaning of language reclamation in diverse Indigenous communities ...
• Weaving Words: Conceptualizing Language Reclamation through a Culturally-Significant Metaphor 

  Chew, Kari A. B. (Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2019)

  When the Creator called us to our homelands to become a distinct people, Chickasaws received the gift of our language—Chikashshanompa'—with which to speak to each other, the land, the plants, the animals, and the Creator. ...
• Studying Indigenous Heritage Languages at Universities A Collaborative Autoethnography 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Keliiaa, Katie; Hicks, Nitana (4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), 2015-03)

  Using collaborative autoethnography, this article explores the experiences of Indigenous graduate students as they navigate higher education and work to ensure the continuance of their heritage languages for future ...
• Family at the Heart of Chickasaw Language Reclamation 

  Chew, Kari A. B. (American Indian Quarterly, 2015)

  Located in south- central Oklahoma, the Chickasaw Nation faces unprecedented language loss. Because of colonization and forced assimilation, the intergenerational transmission of the Chickasaw language—Chikashshanompa’—has ...
• Claiming Space: An Autoethnographic Study of Indigenous Graduate Students Engaged in Language Reclamation 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Greendeer, Nitana Hicks; Keliiaa, Caitlin (International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2015)

  This article explores the critical role of an emerging generation of Indigenous scholars and activists in ensuring the continuity of their endangered heritage languages. Using collaborative autoethnography as a research ...
• Teaching from a Place of Hope in Indigenous Education 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Anthony-Stevens, Vanessa (Anthropology News, 2017)

  The Council on Anthropology and Education’s Standing Committee on Indigenous Education has had a presence at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropology Association over the past decade. The CAE Indigenous Education ...
• I am my subject: Blending Indigenous research methodology and autoethnography through integrity-based, spirit-based research 

  McIvor, Onowa (Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2010)

  The preparation for an adult Indigenous language learning journey is explored in this article by blending autoethnographic methodology with Indigenous research methods. Themes such as spiritual preparation, truth in telling ...
• Language and Culture as Protective Factors for At-Risk Communities 

  McIvor, Onowa; Napoleon, Art; Dickie, Kerissa M. (International Journal of Indigenous Health, 2009)

  A comprehensive review and analysis of the literature related to the role of Indigenous language and culture in maintaining and improving the health as well as reducing the risk factors for health problems of Indigenous ...
• Integrating linguistic structure, content, and communicative practice into post-secondary Indigenous language curriculum: Now what? 

  Strang, Burton; Czaykowska-Higgins, Ewa; Aliki, Marinakis; Onowa, McIvor (4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2015-03-12)

  As part of comprehensive language revitalization strategies many North American Indigenous communities are partnering with post-secondary institutions to offer language courses and programs. Teaching Indigenous languages ...
• Laying the Groundwork: A Practical Guide for Ethical Research with Indigenous Communities 

  Riddell, Julia K.; Salamanca, Angela; Pepler, Debra J.; Cardinal, Shelly; McIvor, Onowa (The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2017-04)

  Although there are numerous ethical guidelines for research with Indigenous communities, not all research is conducted in an ethical, culturally respectful, and effective way. To address this gap, we review four ethical ...
• Supporting Indigenous language revitalisation through collaborative postsecondary proficiency-building curriculum 

  Czaykowska-Higgins, Ewa; Burton, Strang; McIvor, Onowa; Marinakis, Aliki (Language Documentation and Description, 2017)

  One contemporary strategy for reversing language shift undertaken by Indigenous communities includes engaging with educational institutions. In Canada language revitalisation strategies in Indigenous communities increasingly ...
• ‘Culture’ as HIV Prevention: Indigenous Youth Speak Up! 

  Wilson, Ciann; Oliver, Vanessa; Flicker, Sarah; Prentice, Tracey; Jackson, Randy; Larkin, June; Restoule, Jean-Paul; Mitchell, Claudia (Gateways: International International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 2014)

  One rainy spring evening, our research team was preparing for a community report-back session on the Taking Action community-based participatory action research project in Kahnawà:ke, a Mohawk reserve located near Montreal. ...
• The World Indigenous Research Alliance (WIRA): Mediating and Mobilizing Indigenous Peoples’ Educational Knowledge and Aspirations 

  Whitinui, Paul; McIvor, Onowa; Robertson, Boni; Morcom, Lindsay; Cashman, Kimo; Arbon, Veronica (Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015)

  There is an Indigenous resurgence in education occurring globally. For more than a century Euro-western approaches have controlled the provision and quality of education to, and for Indigenous peoples. The World Indigenous ...
• Life and death of Canada’s founding languages (and not the two you think) 

  Smith, Malinda S.; McIvor, Onowa (TRANSFORMING THE ACADEMY INDIGENOUS EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGES AND RELATIONS, 2013)

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