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    "title": "Documenting the Unexpected: Repatriating Native American Linguistic Sovereignty in Northeastern Ancestral Lands",
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    "abstract": "<p>More than 400 years of contact and concomitant linguistic colonialism has forced the great majority of Native American languages of the Northeast into extinction. Though many distinct Native American communities have disappeared, vestiges of their languages still exist in the usual and expected places—place names and historical documents. The few remaining languages continue to resist colonial domination and projected extinction by the end of the twenty-first century. Despite centuries of linguistic colonialism and trajectories toward “language death,” contemporary Native American language advocates are engaged in innovative revitalization and reclamation programs that repurpose historical documents to promote unexpected forms of “language life” and new forms of linguistic sovereignty. This essay traces shifts in language ideologies from colonial linguistic imperialism and the extinction of Native American languages to Native American linguistic repatriation, the promise of language life, and emerging forms of linguistic sovereignty. Key developments between language experts and Native American language advocates are identified as they offer insights into the unexpected domains of Native American language life. </p>",
    "language": "eng",
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        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Maliseet"
        },
        {
            "word": "Language Revitalization"
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        {
            "word": "Native American linguistic repatriation"
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            "word": "language ideology"
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        {
            "first_name": "Bernard",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "Perley",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of British Columbia",
            "department": "Critical Indigenous Studies"
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    "date_submitted": "2023-11-09T07:36:20.471000+01:00",
    "date_accepted": "2024-08-01T21:05:33.071000+02:00",
    "date_published": "2025-03-03T20:00:00+01:00",
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