PrefaceEndangered Languages and Their Literatures R. McKenna Brown1. Strategies and Resources Joel Sherzer (Keynote Address: AILLA: Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America) The Pedagogical and Linguistic Issues Involved in Production of EL Materials: A Case Study of Nawat Monica Ward A Tarahumara-English Computational Semantic Lexicon J.E. Lonergan2. Orthographies To the Letter: A Microanalysis of Currently Contested Graphemes in the Maya of Yucatan Michal Brody I Can't Read That Way of Writing:Linguistic and Indigenous Systems Clash in the Apache Language Revitalization Movement Pamela Innes3. Proverbs, Metaphor and Poetics Re-Kindling Interest in an Endangered Language: A Way Forward for Igbo Chiroke Asogwa If You Play With Fire: Literary Production in Jicarilla Apache Jule Gomez de Garcia, Melissa Axelrod, and Jordan Lachler Cognitive Metaphor in Language Revitalization Jocelyn Ahlers4. Endangered Languages Literatures and Education Literatures for the Semi-Literate: Issues for Emerging Literacies in the Kimberly Region of North-Western Australia Joseph Blythe & Frances Kofod The Role of Educators as Biological, Cultural, and Language Exterminators: Teaching for Creativity, Measuring for Conformity Norman Thomson Jepkorir Chepyator-Thomson5. Strategies: Case Studies Using Storytelling in Schools to Preserve Endangered Languages Alexis Lopez On the Steps of Memory: Theater Anthropology as an Instrument for Cultural and Linguistic Revitalization in Indigenous Communities of the Colombian Amazon Giovanna Micarelli Hernán Gomez Languages Worth Writing: Endangered Languages of Nepal Mary Morgan & Deepa Gurung6. Oral Literatures: Collection La experiencia de recopilar el conocimiento Kuna V. Perez Rivera (I. Kungiler) The Symbolic Value of Oral Literature for the Revitalization of Tawahka David R. Margolin, Marcela Carñas, Suyapa Dilworth, and Carmen Palacios7. Oral Literatures: Diffusion The Blossoming of Our Ancestors' Words: Oral Tradition Collected and Published by Mayan Students Andrew E. Liebermann Jacinto de Paz Perez Strategies for Promoting Endangered Language Literatures Outside Their Local Communities Nadine Grimm & Laura Martin8. Mayan Literature Bajo la montana: Women's Stories of la violencia Janferie Stone Maya Poetics: Renaissance in Continuity 133 Maria Luz Garcia A Tissue of Lies: History versus Myth in the Nature of Time Christopher HadfieldFELFoundation for Endangered Languages: Manifesto155