"It's Really Good Medicine": Perspectives on an Indigenous Language Partnership With Non-Native Students

• In Event: Partnerships for Empowering Minoritized Students

Abstract

In an effort to more meaningfully implement a state Indian education policy, three educators (a Salish language instructor, a second-grade classroom teacher, and a university teacher educator) forged a Salish language partnership on traditional lands off of the reservation with mostly non-Native students. This is an analysis of collaborators' perspectives on the process and impact of the language partnership.

Authors

• Kate Brayko, University of Montana - Missoula

• Jane Doherty

• Naomi Billedeaux, Salish Kootenai College

• Stephanie F. Reid, University of Montana - Missoula

• Cassandra Sheets, University of Montana