International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition) - Community-centered Indigenous language recovery, restoration, revitalization, and renewal

Foregrounding Indigenous self-determination, decolonization, and community-centered language practices, we intend to disrupt the academy's assumptions about the necessity and centrality of Western academic research to Indigenous communities' efforts at revitalizing their languages. As Indigenous scholar-practitioners from distinct Indigenous communities - Hawaiʻi, Kanien'keha:ka, Lytton First Nation, Isthmus Zapotec - we share our perspectives and lived-experiences of community-centered language work in the areas of intergenerational knowledge relations, curriculum, and media and technology. We challenge the academy's desire to control the futurity of Indigenous languages by following the lead of the Indigenous community working toward language recovery, restoration, revitalization, and renewal.