To further my research for my final ETEC 590 paper, I am now using Google Scholar to start looking for articles that will support my topic of revitalizing the Shuswap language after the lost generation due to residential schools.

This first article, entitled “The Crisis of Silence” is by Alan Haig-Brown.  One question that is raised is

“Why maintain the languages? However, for Indian people the answer is obviously one of individual self-identity and cultural continuity” (Haig-Brown, 1983)

http://prophet.library.ubc.ca/ojs/index.php/bcstudies/article/viewFile/1149/1193

A second article that I found is entitled “You can’t kill Coyote stories of language healing from Chief Atahm School Secwepemc language immersion program” (Michel, 2005).  I have selected this article since the Shuswap Immersion program in Chase B.C. (at the Chief Atahm School) was the first article that I came across that inspired me to continue my research on indigenous language immersion.  This paper was written by a UBC doctorat student, which caught my attention.  Again it focuses in exactly on my topic about dying languages and the story of the Chief Atahm Shuswap Immersion school.

http://summit.sfu.ca/item/5641 (click on link and then download the PDF)