• 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 ...
• Protective effects of language learning, use and culture on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in Canada 

  McIvor, Onowa (Foundation for Endangered Languages, 2013)

  Traditional language and culture have an important role to play in Indigenous communities. Many communities assert that their language and culture is at the heart of what makes them unique and what has kept them alive in ...
• Indigenous Languages in Canada: What You Need to Know 

  McIvor, Onowa (CCUNESCO, 2018)
• Canada’s Big Chill: Indigenous Languages in Education 

  Ball, Jessica; McIvor, Onowa (Sense Publishers, 2013)

  wihtaskamihk kîkâc kahkiyaw nîhîyaw pîkiskwîwina î namatîpayiwa wiya môniyâw onîkânîwak kayâs kâkiy sihcikîcik ka nakinahkwâw nîhiyaw osihcikîwina. atawiya anohc kanâta askiy kâpimipayihtâcik î tipahamok nîhiyaw awâsisak ...
• Science Education and Indigenous Learners 

  Blades, David; McIvor, Onowa (Sense Publishers, 2017)
• Adult Indigenous language learning in Western Canada: What is holding us back? 

  McIvor, Onowa (Linus Learning, 2015)

  Adult language learners are often overlooked as serious contributors to the overall revival of Indigenous languages. This paper focuses on this “missing generation”, those who are striving to (re)gain their ancestral ...
• Language-in-education policies and Indigenous language revitalization efforts in Canada: Considerations for non-dominant language education in the Global South 

  McIvor, Onowa; Ball, Jessica (FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019)

  Indigenous languages are struggling for breath in the Global North. In Canada, Indigenous language medium schools and early childhood programs remain independent and marginalized. Despite government commitments, there is ...
• 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 ...

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