Dakelh (Carrier)

[aka ᑕᗸᒡ, Carrier, les Porteurs]

Classification: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit

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severely endangered

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Native Language Curriculum for Adults: Experience with a University-Level Carrier Curriculum

A description of a strongly grammar-based university-level Carrier curriculum, which enabled the students to produce and understand complex sentences that they had not previously heard. I argue that curricula based on culturally salient vocabulary and fixed expressions are not based on any authentic native tradition. Rather, they are ultimately the result of colonialism.

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Bill Poser

Bill Poser

2001

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