ABSTRACT
The focal point for efforts toward language renewal on the Northern Ute reservation has been a theory of language acquisition that is heavily anthropological in orientation. Representatives of language renewal efforts underway on the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain reservations were invited to participate. Both committees recommended additions and modifications in the text, to make certain that the cultural as well as linguistic dimensions of language renewal were addressed by the policy and to clarify the functions of the Ute Language and Culture Committee, the component of the Education Division which would be given responsibility for overseeing all language renewal efforts carried out on this reservation. Clearly, members of the several language renewal projects felt otherwise. The emergence of the popular mandate for language renewal was the critical element in the success of the movement. Among the constraints placed on the language renewal effort at Northern Ute was a prohibition against any form of written language instruction.
