Engaging Native American Publics

Introduction

1. Native American Languages and Linguistic Anthropology: From the Legacy of Salvage Anthropology to the Promise of Linguistic Self-Determination
Barbra A. Meek

Part I: Collaboration

2. There's No Easy Way to Talk about Language Change or Language Loss: The Difficulties and Rewards of Linguistic Collaboration
Gus Palmer, Jr.

3. Recontextualizing Kumeyaay Oral Literature for the Twenty-First Century
Margaret Field

4. "You Shall Not Become This Kind of People": Indigenous Political Argument in Maidu Linguistic Text Collections
M. Eleanor Nevins

5. To "We" (+inclusive) or Not to "We" (-inclusive): The CD-ROM Taitaduhaan (Our Language) and Western Mono Future Publics
Paul V. Kroskrity

Part II: Circulation

6. Future Imperfect: Advocacy, Rhetoric, and Public Anxiety over Maliseet Language Life and Death
Bernard C. Perley

7. Perfecting Publics: Future Audiences and the Aesthetics of Refinement
Erin Debenport

Part III: Scaling Publics

8. "I Don't Write Navajo Poetry, I Just Speak the Poetry in Navajo": Ethical Listeners, Poetic Communion, and Imagined Future Publics of Navajo Poetry
Anthony K. Webster

9. Reflections on Navajo Publics, "New" Media, and Documentary Futures
Leighton Peterson

10. Labelling Knowledge: The Semiotics of Immaterial Cultural Property and the Production of New Indigenous Publics
Jane Anderson, Hannah McElgunn, and Justin Richland