“teepaalilaani” © Hannah Buchanan 2025
Our project
Welcome to Reclaiming Our Languages! This website reports and shares what we learned when we systematically reviewed the field of Indigenous language revitalization, looking for how Indigenous learning is represented in the field. We identified key findings regarding the successes and challenges in teaching and learning Indigenous languages, what teaching strategies and models have worked best for community language educators, and how we can work to rebuild networks of Indigenous language speakers. Our final report and evidence brief may be found in the “Report and Findings” section and all the articles we found to address Indigenous people learning their languages can be explored in our “Browse the literature” section. Shorter resource summaries and links to other organizations can be found under “Resources.” We welcome you!
This research and website is funded by the Evolving Narratives of Cultures and Histories Knowledge Synthesis Grant of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
About Land and Place
This research was conducted by a team of scholars at the University of Windsor at Waawiiatanong, which is located on Anishinaabe Territory – the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. We want to state our respect for the ancestral and ongoing authority of Walpole Island First Nation on Bkejwanong over its Territory and the longstanding relationships in this place in the 100-mile Windsor-Essex peninsula and the straits – les détroits – of Detroit. We also recognize Windsor-Essex as a place built through the labor of immigrants and honor Black history and continued struggle here. This research reviewed articles from around the globe, and we urge you to learn about the Indigenous peoples and languages where you live today.