A Global Perspective on Costing Indigenous Language Revitalization September 2018 Heather Bliss, PhD for First Peoples’ Cultural Council 1A Boat Ramp Road Brentwood Bay, B.C. V8M 1N9 www.fpcc.ca
[email protected] Acknowledgements I am grateful to the following individuals, who have graciously shared their time and expertise to assist in the preparation of this report. Hildegunn Bjørgen, Kulturrådet, Arts Council Norway Colleen Fitzgerald, National Science Foundation (United States) Nicandro González, Director Research, INALI (Mexico) Raewyn Harrison, Director, Te Reo Tuatahi (New Zealand) Paula Hill, Department of Education (United States) Eleonor Johansson, Ministry of Culture, Swedish Government Larry Kimura, Professor, University of Hawai’i at Hilo Inge Kral, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (Australia) Monica Macaulay, President, Endangered Languages Fund Marko Marjomaa, Sámi Giellagáldu (Nordic Center for Saami Languages, Norway) Felicity Meakins, Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow D. Kau'ilani Sang, Director, Office of Hawaiian Education Tracey Shields, Parliamentary Service Te Ratonga Whare Pāremata (New Zealand) Noenoe Silva, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Jane Simpson, Australian National University Vera da Silva Sinha, University of East Anglia Inée Slaughter, Executive Director, Indigenous Language Institute (United States) Beth Stelle, Los Alamos National Laboratory (United States) Anita Szakay, Centre for Language Sciences, Macquarie University (Australia) Jozina Vander Klok, Department of Linguistics, Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo Anuschka van´t Hooft, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (Mexico) Sarah Marie Wiebe, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Situating Myself I come to this work as a non-Indigenous linguist living and working in the traditional and unceded territories of the hənq̓ə̓ minə̓ m-̓ speaking peoples.