Lessons from Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance

Acknowledgments viii 1. Introduction 1 2. Indigenous Languages and the Mediation of Communities 12 3. Learning to Listen: Coming to Terms with Conflicting Meanings of Language Loss 47 4. They Live in Lonesome Dove: English in Indigenous Places 79 5. Stories in the Moment of Encounter: Documentation Boundary Work 113 6. What No Coyote Story Means: The Borderland Genre of Traditional Storytelling 152 7. Some No No and Some Yes : Silence, Agency, and Traditionalist Words 186 8. Sustainability: Possible Socialities of Documentation and Maintenance 215 Appendix A: Lawrence Mithlo 229 Appendix B: Eva Lupe on Her Early Life 237 Index 250