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Winner of the Beatrice Medicine Award In south-central Oklahoma and much of Indian Country, using an Indigenous language is colloquially referred to as talking Indian. Among older Chickasaw community members, the phrase is used more often than the name of the specific language, Chikashshanompa or Chickasaw. As author Jenny L. Davis explains, this colloquialism reflects the strong connections between languages and both individual and communal identities when talking as an Indian is intimately tied up with the heritage language(s) of the community, even as the number of speakers declines. Today a tribe of more than sixty thousand members, the Chickasaw Nation was one of the Native nations removed from their homelands to Oklahoma between 1837 and 1838. According to Davis, the Chickasaws dispersion from their lands contributed to their disconnection from their language over by 2010 the number of Chickasaw speakers had radically declined to fewer than seventy-five speakers. In Talking Indian , Davisa member of the Chickasaw Nationoffers the first book-length ethnography of language revitalization in a U.S. tribe removed from its homelands. She shows how in the case of the Chickasaw Nati

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Author

Jenny L. Davis

Publisher

The University of Arizona Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816538157

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, History, Social Sciences