ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores recent cutting-edge research on the ongoing articulations of Indigenous publics with linguistic and cultural disciplines occasioned by their mutual orientation to the future of Indigenous languages and cultures. It examines a particular aspect of language manufacture in order to unpack the cultural provenance that characterizes both the linguistic product and its intended audience. The book reveals the variety of audiences that Indigenous efforts have attempted to capture through the subtle boundary work entextualized in these acts of preservation and transcendence. It shows that together changes in technology and expanding participation are facilitating changes in the constitution and characterization of emergent publics addressed by contemporary iterations of Indigenous language material. Changes in the political-economic circumstances of tribes are supporting changes in the discourses and the Indigenous publics that are coming into being.
