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Based on two decades of work with the Alaska Native village of Piniq, Leisy Wyman's masterful ethnography reveals the complex ways in which youth peer culture and family language policies intersect with those of the school, how youth talk back to pressures of language shift, and the far-reaching impacts of tacit and official policies on a community's linguistic future - A beautifully written sociolinguistic portrait of one community's fight for linguistic, cultural, and educational self-determination, and a must read for language scholars and practitioners alike. Teresa L. McCarty, Arizona State University, USA With great sensitivity and insight Leisy Wyman takes us on a journey to the inner recesses of an indigenous language and culture struggling to maintain a way of life that is undergoing rapid cross-generational transformation and linguistic upheaval. Drawing on both an insider and outsider perspective, Wyman provides detailed documentation of family, community, institutional and societal influences on Yup'ik youth as they navigate the shifting linguistic ecologies impacting their homeland. Ray Barnhardt, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA

Based on two decades of work with the Alaska Native village of Piniq, Leisy Wyman's masterful ethnography reveals the complex ways in which youth peer culture and family language policies intersect with those of the school, how youth talk back to pressures of language shift, and the far-reaching impacts of tacit and official policies on a community's linguistic future - A beautifully written sociolinguistic portrait of one community's fight for linguistic, cultural, and educational self-determination, and a must read for language scholars and practitioners alike. Teresa L. McCarty, Arizona State University, USA With great sensitivity and insight Leisy Wyman takes us on a journey to the inner recesses of an indigenous language and culture struggling to maintain a way of life that is undergoing rapid cross-generational transformation and linguistic upheaval. Drawing on both an insider and outsider perspective, Wyman provides detailed documentation of family, community, institutional and societal influences on Yup'ik youth as they navigate the shifting linguistic ecologies impacting their homeland. Ray Barnhardt, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA This book is essential reading for those concerned about endangered languages. Wyman complicates and problematizes our existing understanding of heritage language maintenance by examining ways in which youth develop strategies of languaging and translanguaging for linguistic survivance. It is an invaluable resource for students of bilingualism, for concerned educators, and for members of minority communities around the world. Guadalupe Valdes, Stanford University, USA

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Leisy Thornton Wyman has worked for over 20 years with YupaEURO(t)ik communities in Alaska, and is an associate professor in the Language, Reading and Culture (LRC) program at the University of Arizona. Her scholarly works include a theme issue on Indigenous Youth and Bilingualism for the Journal of Language, Identity and Education (McCarty & Wyman, 2009), a forthcoming book on North American Indigenous youth language (Wyman et al, in progress), and a volume of YupaEURO(t)ik elders' narratives, (Fredson et al., 1998). Her research appears in multiple edited volumes, the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Journal of American Indian Education, and World Studies in Education.

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