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Awareness and understanding of such language ideologies is critical to Native American language contexts, as without this knowledge \u201cscholars and researchers-both Native and non-Native-cannot hope to understand Native American languages and the ways speakers use them, change them, and renew them.\u201d(Kroskrity & Field 2009:10)\n\nIn this talk, I present one part of my larger dissertation study on bilingual language practices and ideologies in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. My analysis focuses on language ideologies towards Zunglish, or language mixing involving Zuni and English, expressed during interviews with adult participants of various ages and with various levels of ability in the Zuni language. I show that some of the participants express ideologies of deficiency and language purism toward Zunglish, while others view language mixing as a necessity and as a reflection of hon a:wan A:shiwi \u2018our Zuni people\u2019 living in two worlds. I conclude by reflecting on how these ideologies can hinder community members, in particular younger generations, from speaking Zuni and how valuing rather than disparaging bilingual practices is essential to creating the conditions for A:shiwi who wish to gain confidence in using the language.\n\nReferences:\nBullock, Barbara E., and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, eds. 2009. The Cambridge\nhandbook of linguistic code-switching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.\n\nHickey, Raymond, ed. 2010. The handbook of language contact. Oxford:\nWiley-Blackwell.\n\nKroskrity, Paul V. and Margaret C. Field.2009.Native American language ideologies:\nBeliefs, practices and struggles in Indian Country. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona\nPress.\n\nLambert, James. 2018. A multitude of \u201clishes\u201d: The nomenclature of hybridity. English\nWorld-Wide 39(1): 1-33.\n\nMuysken, Pieter. 2000. Bilingual speech: A typology of code-mixing. 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