ABSTRACT
Indigenous people are transforming the social media platform Twitter into a cultural, community, and learning environment, creating nourishing digital spaces to engage with their ancestral languages. The vitality of Indigenous languages in Canada is evident on Twitter. There are various nation-specific Words of the Day and hashtag networks, which are led by Indigenous Twitter users. Twitter is a space where Indigenous people are learning their languages in culturally based ways. We describe these pedagogical processes as language kinscapes , relational pedagogy , and place-based bridging. Through these processes, we examine how Indigenous Twitter users are creating online networks for language learning. These networks are healing and decolonial spaces where Indigenous languages are valued and energized. The ways in which Indigenous communities are creating online spaces for language learning offer pedagogical opportunities and strategies to help build a decolonial world and decolonial futures for Indigenous youth.
