Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla

• PhD
• Associate Professor at University of British Columbia

Within the last two decades, there has been increased interest in how technology supports Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation efforts. This paper considers the effect technology has on Indigenous language learning and teaching, while conceptualizing how language educators, speakers, learners, and technology users holistically underst...

Hula has become an internationally known performative art that is now taught, learned and practiced in many countries including the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico, French Polynesia, Germany, Netherlands, Taiwan, Australia, and beyond by Hawaiians, Hawaiians-at- heart, and admirers of the traditional dance1. With the advent of multimedia techn...

This article describes an on-going international collaboration on Indigenous language and culture education that engages post-secondary institutions in Hawaiʻi, Arizona, Alaska, New Zealand and Canada. Formed in 2005 under the leadership of the late William Demmert, Jr., this community presently brings a critical mass of prominent Indigenous and no...

This paper describes critical areas in which technology plays a role in language and culture revitalization and explores efforts made by Indigenous communities to preserve, maintain and revitalize their Indigenous language with the help of computer technology.

Foregrounding Indigenous self-determination, decolonization, and community-centered language practices, we intend to disrupt the academy's assumptions about the necessity and centrality of Western academic research to Indigenous communities' efforts at revitalizing their languages. As Indigenous scholar-practitioners from distinct Indigenous commun...

Drawing on Lorca's concept of the duende as the source of creativity, this essay describes inventiveness and innovation in a range of languaging practices that resist injustice, heal its wounds, and lead to enacted thrivance in Indigenous contexts. Three diverse examples are described in order to demonstrate just ways of creative languaging that re...

Indigenous language work is manifested in a diversity of community-led responses of resilience and persistence. Indigenous persons who are reclaiming their languages have entered academia with goals of contributing to community language reclamation efforts and broader resurgence movements. Adapting Archibald's (2008) concept of storywork-experienti...

This research examines three American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) participants who registered and completed the “Computer Applications for Indigenous Language Communities” course at the University of Arizona between summer 2003 and summer 2007, at a time when digital technology was emerging, particularly in Indigenous communities....

This paper discusses some barriers, complexities, and opportunities Indigenous peoples face when engaging in language revitalization efforts, and how those elements contribute to the adoption, adaptation, or abandonment of digital technology. I begin with framing the context of Indigenous languages in the United States and Canada to underscore the...

In the 19th century, an assimilationist movement swept across the United States to remove cultural evidence from Native American people—American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Boarding schools and language policies created long‐lasting impacts on this minority population, contributing to a language shift toward English. Children wer...

This paper describes our research practice using Indigenous languages to access and articulate the Indigenous knowledge systems and understandings of wellbeing from Indigenous language speakers. This research demonstrates community-engaged language revitalization practices involving (a) linguistic and cultural oversight in all forms of interpretati...

With an increase in awareness of Indigenous languages on a global scale and with local, grass roots revitalization efforts and initiatives underway, a significant challenge that exists for language learning and teaching is the formulation and availability of language materials. Based on a university course, developed and taught in various iteration...

Richard Ruiz has inspired generations of scholars in language planning and multilingual education with his unique orientations to language as a problem, a right and a resource. This volume attests to the far-reaching impact of his thinking and teaching, bringing together a selection of his published and unpublished writings on language planning ori...