Lessons from Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance

Acknowledgments viii

1. Introduction 1

2. Indigenous Languages and the Mediation of Communities 12

3. Learning to Listen: Coming to Terms with Conflicting Meanings of Language Loss 47

4. They Live in Lonesome Dove: English in Indigenous Places 79

5. Stories in the Moment of Encounter: Documentation Boundary Work 113

6. What No Coyote Story Means: The Borderland Genre of Traditional Storytelling 152

7. “Some ‘No No’ and Some ‘Yes’”: Silence, Agency, and Traditionalist Words 186

8. Sustainability: Possible Socialities of Documentation and Maintenance 215

Appendix A: Lawrence Mithlo 229

Appendix B: Eva Lupe on Her Early Life 237

Index 250