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REPORT 14

SURVEY OF CALIFORNIA AND

OTHER INDIAN LANGUAGES

Language is Life PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11TH ANNUAL

STABILIZING INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES CONFERENCE

June 10-13, 2004

University of California at Berkeley

Wesley Y. Leonard and Stelómethet Ethel B. Gardner, Editors

Andrew Garrett and Leanne Hinton, Series Editors

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by the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

cover design by Leanne Hinton (Santa Barbara Chumash rock painting)

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Table of Contents

Wesley Y. Leonard, Leanne Hinton ii Introduction

Conference Schedule vii

Martha J. Macri, Victor K. Golla, Lisa L. Woodward 1 J. P. Harrington Project: Academic and Community Participation

Ivonne Heinze Balcazar 13 Bilingual Acquisition in Kaqchikel Maya Children and its Implications for

the Teaching of Indigenous Languages

Ciwas Pawan 26 Indigenous Language Education in Taiwan

Michael Capurso 34 Integrating Language and Culture Revitalization into Public School Life

Jocelyn C. Ahlers 48 Language Restoration Before Funding: Or, What to Do Before the Grants

Come Through

Stelómethet Ethel B. Gardner 60 “Without Our Language We Will Cease to Exist as a Unique People”

Rob Amery 81 Kaurna Language Reclamation and the Formulaic Method

Kevin Lowe (Birri-Gubba), Michael Walsh 100 California Down Under: Indigenous Language Revitalization in New South

Wales, Australia

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