• Lois, règlements et politiques concernant la revitalisation des langues autochtones au Canada et à l’échelle internationale 

  McIvor, Onowa; Chew, Kari; Hemlock, Kanen’tó:kon (Assemblée des Premières Nations, 2021)
• Legislation, Regulations, and Policies: Concerning the Revitalization of Indigenous Languages in Canada and Internationally 

  McIvor, Onowa; Chew, Kari; Hemlock, Kanen’tó:kon (Assembly of First Nations, 2022)

  The primary objective of this report is to compare federal, provincial and territorial legislation, regulations and policies concerning the revitalization of Indigenous (primarily First Nations) languages in Canada. The ...
• Learning In Relation. Creating Online Indigenous Language Courses: Introduction (Part 1/4) 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Child, S.; Sammons, O.; Souter, H. (2022-12-05)

  Through this video series, learn about creating online Indigenous language courses. Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation movements connect Indigenous Nations and organizations working to support the teaching ...
• Learning In Relation. Creating Online Indigenous Language Courses: Consider Different Platforms (Part 2/4) 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Child, S.; Sammons, O.; Souter, H. (2022-12-05)

  Through this video series, learn about creating online Indigenous language courses. Indigenous Peoples use language learning and teaching technologies, including online courses, to support language revitalization. To create ...
• Learning in Relation. Creating Online Indigenous Language Courses: Benefits to the Community (Part 3/4) 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Child, S.; Sammons, O.; Souter, H. (2022-12-05)

  Through this video series, learn about creating online Indigenous language courses. Two examples featured in this video are the Hase’ Language Revitalization Society and Prairies to Woodlands Indigenous Language Revitalization ...
• Learning in Relation. Creating Online Indigenous Language Courses: Creating and Sharing the Course (Part 4/4) 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Child, S.; Sammons, O.; Souter, H. (2022-12-05)

  Through this video series, learn about creating online Indigenous language courses. When planning or creating online Indigenous languages courses, there are considerations both large and small. Because creating an online ...
• Learning in Relation: A Guide to Creating Online Indigenous Language Courses that Center Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Calls Him, Melvin; Dormer, Jackie; Tennell, Courtney (2022-11-04)

  The purpose of this guide is to share knowledge with Indigenous Nations and organizations, technology developers, and scholars who are working to center and respect Indigenous ways of knowing and being in online Indigenous ...
• Persistence in Indigenous language work during the covid-19 pandemic 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; McIvor, Onowa; Hemlock, Kanen’tó:kon; Marinakis, Aliki (Alternative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2022-09)

  Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous communities have persisted in Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation efforts. This research utilized a scan of social media, a survey, and interviews, conducted in the ...
• Indigenous language revitalization and applied linguistics: Paralleled histories, shared futures? What can we learn from each other? [Keynote address] 

  McIvor, Onowa (American Association of Applied Linguistics, 2021-03-20)

  If one measures time in millennia, it has been a relatively short time since Indigenous languages flourished across the Americas. Indigenous communities were necessarily multilingual for purposes of trade, travel and ...
• Beyond bilingualism: Indigenous languages’ place in the lands now called Kanata [Keynote address] 

  McIvor, Onowa (Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL), 2021-04-29)

  The road to the creation of language policy in Canada doomed Indigenous languages from the beginning, ignored from the time of Confederation in 1867 (Derwing and Munro, 2007). “Canada has been officially bilingual since ...
• Growing the Fire Within: Exploring Innovative and Successful Adult Language Learning Methods in Indigenous Communities in Canada and the US 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Manatowa-Bailey, Jacob; Lukaniec, Megan; McIvor, Onowa; Linn, Mary (NETOLNEW, 2021)
• Indigenous adults revive languages in British Columbia through Mentor-Apprentice style learning: Phase 2 executive summary 

  Gessner, S.; Green, H.; Multani, N. (NEȾOLN̲EW̲, 2021)
• NEȾOLṈEW̱ “one mind, one people”: Relationship and community-based ILR research in Canada 

  McIvor, Onowa; Jacobs, Peter; Gould, Blair; Hill, Callie; Swallow, Tye (International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021-03-04)

  We will discuss the guiding principles and governance structure of NEȾOLṈEW̱, a national research partnership of Indigenous scholars and community leaders involved in Indigenous language revitalization in Canada, and share ...
• #KeepOurLanguagesStrong: Indigenous Language Revitalization on Social Media during the Early COVID-19 Pandemic 

  Chew, Kari A. B. (Language, Documentation and Conservation, 2021)

  Indigenous communities, organizations, and individuals work tirelessly to #KeepOurLanguagesStrong. The COVID-19 pandemic was potentially detrimental to Indigenous language revitalization (ILR) as this mostly in-person work ...
• Indigenous languages persistence during the COVID 19 pandemic: Individual and community efforts keep our languages strong 

  McIvor, Onowa; Hemlock, Kanen’tó:kon (2021)
• i-kiyohkātoyāhk (we visit): adapting nēhiyawēwin/nīhithawīwin (Cree) language learning to the COVID-19 reality 

  McIvor, Onowa (AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2020)

  i-kiyohkātoyāhk (we visit) is a phrase which describes our experience of trying to recreate an online version of our way of life, being together in the language. The following report is our view of the ways nēhiyawēwin/n ...
• Indigenous language learning impacts, challenges and opportunities in COVID-19 times 

  McIvor, Onowa; Chew, Kari A. B.; Stacey, Iris (Kahtehrón:ni) (AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2020)

  In March 2020, the COVID-19 global health crisis caused disruption to the daily lives and regular practices of most human populations. Indigenous language revitalization (ILR) work is often undertaken face-to-face and ...
• Growing the fire within: Creating new adult speakers of Indigenous languages [Video] 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Manatowa-Bailey, J.; Lukaniec, M.; McIvor, Onowa; Linn, M. (2020-10-30)

  Indigenous peoples have worked for decades to revitalize their languages. Much of the focus has been on children, but also critical are programs for the “missing generations” of adults who did not grow up with their ...
• How is COVID19 Impacting Indigenous Language Revitalization? 

  Chew, Kari A. B. (NEȾOLṈEW̱, 2020)

  A team of NEȾOLṈEW̱ researchers is storying the impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous language revitalization (ILR). The pandemic that hit in March of 2020 was potentially detrimental to the great efforts from Indigenous ...
• Indigenous Language Revitalization and Applied Linguistics: Parallel Histories, Shared Futures? 

  McIvor, Onowa (Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2020)

  Damages done to Indigenous languages occurred due to colonial forces, some of which continue to this day, and many believe efforts to revive them should involve more than Indigenous peoples alone. Therefore, the need for ...

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