Public school classrooms around the world have the power to shape
and transform youth culture and identity. In this book, Mneesha
Gellman examines how Indigenous high school students resist
assimilation and assert their identities through access to
Indigenous language classes in public schools. Drawing on
ethnographic accounts, qualitative interviews, focus groups, and
surveys, Gellman's fieldwork examines and compares the experiences
of students in Yurok language courses in Northern California and
Zapotec courses in Oaxaca, Mexico. She contends that this access to
Indigenous language instruction in secondary schooling serves as an
arena for Indigenous students to develop their sense of identity
and agency, and provides them tools and strategies for civic,
social, and political participation, sometimes in unexpected ways.
Showcasing young people's voices, and those of their teachers and
community members, in the fight for culturally relevant curricula
and educational success, Gellman demonstrates how the Indigenous
language classroom enables students to understand, articulate, and
resist the systemic erasure and destruction of their culture
embedded in state agendas and educational curricula. Access to
Indigenous language education, she shows, has positive effects not
only for Indigenous students, but for their non-Indigenous peers as
well, enabling them to become allies in the struggle for Indigenous
cultural survival. Through collaborative methodology that engages
in research with, not on, Indigenous communities, Indigenous
Language Politics in the Schoolroom explores what it means to be
young, Indigenous, and working for social change in the
twenty-first century.
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