Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction -- Structure of the Book -- My Approach -- References -- 2: Indigenous Languages and the Mediation of Communities -- A Difficult Morning -- Relevance of Endangerment and Maintenance -- Global Linguistic Ecology: What Endangerment and Maintenance Have in Common -- Alongside Political Integration: Indigenous Histories of Differentiation -- What "Indigeneity" Affords: Equivocation Regarding "Imagined Communities" -- Fort Apache Reservation - a Complexly Mediated Indigenous Speech Community -- Indigeneity, Complex Mediation, and Paradox -- Temporal Paradox: Endangerment in Modern Times -- Paradox of Expertise -- Paradox of Object(ives) -- Indigenous Languages as Matter of Concern - a Postcritical Approach -- Language Research and Development as Cultural Encounter -- The Generativity of Otherness across Mutually Implicated Boundaries -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Learning to Listen: Coming to Terms with Conflicting Meanings of Language Loss -- My Intersection with Changing Researcher-Community Relationships -- Ndee Biyati' Project: Its Rise and Fall -- Contrasting Language Ideologies Brought into Conflict -- School-Oriented Language Ideology: Apache as a National Language -- Family-Oriented Language Ideology: Listening and Awareness -- The Basis of Conflict between Language Ideologies in the Fort Apache Context -- Toward Understanding Community Critiques of Apache Language Programs -- Alternative Models Suggested -- References -- 4: They Live in Lonesome Dove: English in Indigenous Places -- Media, Discourse, and Communities -- Place, Discourse, Community -- Apache Language Place Names -- Place Names Are Associated with Narratives -- Many Names Describe Physical Attributes of a Place -- Names Are Applied to People and Used as Interpretive Frames.

Apache English Bilingual Place-Naming -- Contrasting Neighborhoods on the Reservation -- Longstanding Settlements -- New Housing Developments -- New Places, New Names -- Commonalties between Apache Language and English Language Place Names -- Place Names Are Associated with Narrative Contexts -- Most of the Place Names Describe Physical Attributes of a Neighborhood -- Names Are Applied to People and Used as Interpretive Frames -- Why English? -- Why Mass Media Discourse? -- Media, Joking, and Wordplay -- Media Discourse Provides Shared Points of Reference -- Media Discourse Fulfills Place Name Genre Expectations -- Appropriations of Media Discourse Are Political Acts -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Stories in the Moment of Encounter: Documentation Boundary Work -- Living Histories -- Temporalities and Political Relations -- Polysemic Mediation - Language Documentation as Boundary Works -- Writing at the Boundary of Dueling Temporalities -- Encountering Others across Contrasting Regimes of Meaning -- The Temporal Argument of Salvage Documentation -- Language Documentation in an Apache History of Plural Mediation -- Rethinking Text Collections in the Mediation of Communities -- How I Got a Clue -- Misrecognized Dialogues in Elicitation Sessions -- First Rhetorical Move - Difference of Perspective Established and Marked -- Second Rhetorical Move - Self from the Other's Point of View -- Third Rhetorical Move -- Fourth Rhetorical Move -- Archives as Boundary Works -- Encounter in Documentation: Text Collections in the Americanist Tradition -- References -- 6: What No Coyote Story Means: The Borderland Genre of Traditional Storytelling -- Coyote Literacy -- Coyote's Boundary Voice -- Histories of Differentiating Media -- Ethnopoetics and Research Diplomacy -- Texts as Boundary Works -- Extended Sociality, Equivocation, and the Poetics of Stories.

What No Coyote Story Means: Speech Repurposed -- Indigenous Language Programs as Equivocal Translational Spaces -- References -- 7: "Some 'No No' and Some 'Yes' ": Silence, Agency, and Traditionalist Words -- Language Programs and Religious Leaders -- Silence, Omissions, and the Projected Demise of Languages -- Having a Voice versus Silence - Heritage in Representative Democracy -- A Paradox - Silence and Indexing Power Elsewhere -- Power of Innovations in Religious Discourse -- Innovation and Relevance in Traditionalist Apache Language Rhetoric -- Innovation and Relevance in Apache Independent Christian Rhetoric -- Paradoxes of Voice and Recognition -- References -- 8: Sustainability: Possible Socialities of Documentation and Maintenance -- Contextualizing Documentation - the Tease of Texts across Multiple Regimes -- The Instability of Endangerment -- We Have Never Saved Languages -- Telling a Better Story: Sustainability, Equivocation, and Reciprocity -- References -- Appendix A: Lawrence Mithlo -- Appendix B: Eva Lupe on Her Early Life1 -- References -- Index.