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Taitaduhaan: Western Mono ways of speaking (a CD-ROM) -- Emergent publics: a Mono public and multiple publics -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Circulation -- Chapter 6: Future imperfect: advocacy, rhetoric, and public anxiety over Maliseet language life and death -- Public anxiety and Maliseet language death -- Imaginaries of the future -- Ethnographic interventions: imagining Maliseet futures -- Conclusion: future imperfect -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Perfecting publics: future audiences and the aesthetics of refinement -- Pueblo secrecy and San Ramón Keiwa literacy -- Pueblo publics: current and imagined audiences -- Hopeful nostalgia and future Indigenous publics -- The politics of pueblo public and private spheres -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- PART III: Scaling publics -- Chapter 8: "I don't write Navajo poetry, I just speak the poetry in Navajo": ethical listeners, poetic communion, and the imagined future publics of Navajo poetry -- Imagining a modern Navajo: a brief history of Navajo literacy -- Creating a future public for Navajo poetry -- "Oh you spelled it wrong"--Imagining a future public: Navajo as world language -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: Reflections on Navajo publics, "new" media, and documentary futures -- Filmic documentation and dialogic audiences -- Mediating #Navajo publics -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10: Labeling knowledge: the semiotics of immaterial cultural property and the production of new Indigenous publics -- Beyond copyright: Local Contexts and the Traditional Knowledge Labels -- Intellectual property and Indigenous knowledge: Ekkehart Malotki's Hopi salt trail manuscript and the HopiDictionary/Hopiikwa Lavaytutuveni -- The semiotics of TK Labels and the production of new Indigenous publics