ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the aims, challenges, successes, and future prospects of four teaching institutes: the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI), the Northwest Indian Language Institute (NILI), the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI), and the Institute for Collaborative Language Research (CoLang), formed in response to languages falling silent. They can constitute a roadmap to addressing training needs in community advocacy and language revitalization in any context, with an activist commitment to collaboration with an Indigenous community focus.
