Native American Language Ideologies: Beliefs, Practices, and Struggles in Indian Country

There is one article on languages of the Canadian Yukon, and one on Kaqchikel Mayan in Guatemala. Since one of the stated goals of the book is to highlight differences between speech communities, this lopsidedness is unfortunate. Many of the articles involve a more abstract discussion of the concepts involved, such as Paul Kroskrity's analysis of theory and practice exhibited by Mono language workers. While the issues considered are of great interest to many people from many backgrounds, the language sometimes obfuscates the content so severely that it is rendered inaccessible to all but specialists. [...]this reviewer is simultaneously unqualified to evaluate some of this material, and critical of that very fact.