K’AAW NATASH WA CHƗ́MYANASHMA SHAPÁTTAWAX̱SHA KU SÁPSIKW’ASHA MYÁNASHMA ’WE ARE THE PARENTS RAISING AND TEACHING CHILDREN’: RAISING YAKAMA BABIES AND LANGUAGE TOGETHER
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2022-10-26
Authors
Anderson, Regan
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University of Oregon
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This project listens to parents of Yakama children who provide insight into the ways families are driving efforts of Ichishkíin language revitalization and cultivating movement toward creating a new generation of first-language speakers of Ichishkíin. As a non-Native researcher, I worked collaboratively with my Yakama partner to gather data through a shared survey and community conversations drawing from relationships and connections established through the years. My work builds on research in the fields of Language Revitalization and Education Studies, engaging Indigenous methodologies and Yakama specific frameworks to guide my process and analysis. The survey was open to all parents and caretakers of Yakama children and conversations focused on parents of Yakama babies and toddlers. These interactions shared insights around how Ichishkíin language is used daily in the lives of families as well as what types of supports are wanted to help to increase language use. Parents were generous in sharing their daily practices, challenges, and hopes for the future and this project illustrates the ways Yakama values and language continue to be shared intergenerationally. This project provides a snapshot of the work parents and families are doing on a daily basis to cultivate their language and culture with guidance for future projects, programming, research, and policy.
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Education Studies, Language Acquisition, Language Cultivation, Language Revitalization, Yakama/Yakima Ichishkíin, Yakama/Yakima Studies