Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Alice Wiley Snell Professor Emerita of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University. An educational anthropologist and applied linguist, she has worked with Indigenous education programs throughout North America. Her books include A Place To Be Navajo–Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling (2002); Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling (2005); 'To Remain an Indian'€: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (with K. T. Lomawaima, 2006), and Ethnography and Language Policy (Routledge, 2011).

• DedicationStatement by Miami Tribe of Oklahoma Chief Thomas GambleForeword by Richard E. LittlebearAcknowledgementsPreface1. Contextualizing Native American LPP: Legal-Political, Demographic, and Sociolinguistic Foundations2. Conceptualizing Native American LPP: Critical Sociocultural Foundations3. Native American Languages In and Out of the Safety Zone, 1492-20124.Indigenous Literacies, Bilingual Education, and Community Empowerment: The Case of Navajo5. Language Regenesis in Practice6. Language in the Lives of Indigenous Youth7. Planning Language for the Seventh GenerationAppendixReferencesIndex

In terms of both the breadth and depth of scholarship Teresa L. McCarty's Language Planning and Policy in Native America is an extraordinary contribution. The work of those in Native language revitalization, the perspectives of a number of academic disciplines as well as education and Native language policy development are uniquely and artfully brought together in this volume by a scholar whose career has had significant involvement and contribution in each area.

Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Alice Wiley Snell Professor Emerita of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University. An educational anthropologist and applied linguist, she has worked with Indigenous education programs throughout North America. Her books include A Place To Be Navajo–Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling (2002); Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling (2005); 'To Remain an Indian'€: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (with K. T. Lomawaima, 2006), and Ethnography and Language Policy (Routledge, 2011).

• DedicationStatement by Miami Tribe of Oklahoma Chief Thomas GambleForeword by Richard E. LittlebearAcknowledgementsPreface1. Contextualizing Native American LPP: Legal-Political, Demographic, and Sociolinguistic Foundations2. Conceptualizing Native American LPP: Critical Sociocultural Foundations3. Native American Languages In and Out of the Safety Zone, 1492-20124.Indigenous Literacies, Bilingual Education, and Community Empowerment: The Case of Navajo5. Language Regenesis in Practice6. Language in the Lives of Indigenous Youth7. Planning Language for the Seventh GenerationAppendixReferencesIndex

In terms of both the breadth and depth of scholarship Teresa L. McCarty's Language Planning and Policy in Native America is an extraordinary contribution. The work of those in Native language revitalization, the perspectives of a number of academic disciplines as well as education and Native language policy development are uniquely and artfully brought together in this volume by a scholar whose career has had significant involvement and contribution in each area.

Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Alice Wiley Snell Professor Emerita of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University. An educational anthropologist and applied linguist, she has worked with Indigenous education programs throughout North America. Her books include A Place To Be Navajo–Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling (2002); Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling (2005); 'To Remain an Indian'€: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (with K. T. Lomawaima, 2006), and Ethnography and Language Policy (Routledge, 2011).

• DedicationStatement by Miami Tribe of Oklahoma Chief Thomas GambleForeword by Richard E. LittlebearAcknowledgementsPreface1. Contextualizing Native American LPP: Legal-Political, Demographic, and Sociolinguistic Foundations2. Conceptualizing Native American LPP: Critical Sociocultural Foundations3. Native American Languages In and Out of the Safety Zone, 1492-20124.Indigenous Literacies, Bilingual Education, and Community Empowerment: The Case of Navajo5. Language Regenesis in Practice6. Language in the Lives of Indigenous Youth7. Planning Language for the Seventh GenerationAppendixReferencesIndex

In terms of both the breadth and depth of scholarship Teresa L. McCarty's Language Planning and Policy in Native America is an extraordinary contribution. The work of those in Native language revitalization, the perspectives of a number of academic disciplines as well as education and Native language policy development are uniquely and artfully brought together in this volume by a scholar whose career has had significant involvement and contribution in each area.