The Emerging Indigenous Language Economy: Labour Market Demand for Indigenous Language Skills in the Upper Great Lakes

• Published in: Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development
• Main Authors: Meades, Sean, Pine, Deb, Broad, Gayle
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Captus Press 2019
• Subjects: Business And Economics; Community; Culture; Economic development; Economic wellbeing; Education; Employers; Ethnic Interests; Focus groups; Human capital; Indigenous languages; Indigenous peoples; Innovations; Labor market; Lakes; Language proficiency; Market research; Market surveys; Native languages; Native North Americans; Research; Self sufficiency; Trends; Wage differential; Indigenous economic development; Indigenous communities in Canada; Indigenous self-governance; Canada; Grier; Mayan; anishina*
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1114230ar; https://doi.org/10.54056/PSCJ2651

Language revitalization is necessarily intertwined with economic spheres, as Grenoble and Whaley have expressed that the economic wellbeing of a community influences its ability to engage in such efforts (2006, p. 44). Conversely, health researchers assert that cultural continuity, in which language...