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The Returner : a First Nations autobiographical study : understanding the causes of First Nations language decline and extinction from the perspective of a First Nations language worker

Creator:

Kelly, John Medicine Horse

Abstract:

This study documents thick-description single-source data from the life and experiences of a Native American / Native Canadian language worker. The worker, raised and educated in the United States, was separated from his ancestral village until his thirties. The worker, with a Masters degree in education from Oregon State University,...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

effort it is: an elaborate venture in, to borrow a notion from Gilbert Ryle, "thick description" (1973