This volume is a collection of papers that pays tribute to the work of Jane Hill. The book starts with a foreword by Kenneth Hill and a preface and introduction written by the editors, all of whom were Jane Hill's students. The contributions are organized in two parts. The first part, ‘Approaches to the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas’, contains seven chapters. In chapter 1, Talmy Givón presents a diachronic reconstruction of Ute case-marking using internal reconstruction. In chapter 2, Keren Rice uses an example from the Athabaskan family to explain how language contact impacts phonological processes. In chapter 3, Emily Kidder addresses Yucatec Maya stress patterns through the analysis of phonetic changes in Spanish loan words. In chapter 4, Stacey Oberly presents a phonetic analysis of stress in Southern Ute that helps community members document and revitalize their language. In chapter 5, Colleen Fitzgerald explores the phonological features of Tohono O'odham high vowels. In chapter 6, Jason Haugen & Heidi Harley examine theoretical questions raised by the interaction between reduplication and noun incorporation in Hiaki (Yaki). In chapter 7, Shannon Bischoff & Amy Fountain describe how a low-cost, community-based language archiving project was developed to ensure collaboration with community members and improve accessibility and preservation of Coeur d'Alene language materials.

The second part, ‘Approaches to the study of voices and ideologies’, is divided in two sections. The first section presents work on language contact, shift, and endangerment. In chapter 8, José Antonio Flores Farfán calls for a critical review of one-sided approaches to language contact through a discussion of contact between Spanish and indigenous languages. Chapter 9, by Heidi Orcutt-Gachiri, analyzes language ideologies in discourses of nationalism, education, development, and tribalism to explain the shift to bilingualism among young Kenyans. In chapter 10, Annabelle Chatsis, Mizuki Miyashita, & Deborah Cole look at how different language ideologies come into contact during discourse among participants in a Blackfoot language course. In chapter 11, Jacqueline Messing & Ramos Rosales Flores analyze the multiple ideologies of syncretism and purism around Mexicano (Nahuatl) expressed during a public linguistic event in Tlaxcala.

The second section is devoted to work on racism and inequality in discourse. In chapter 12, Paul Kroskrity explores two explanations (ethnocentrism and covert racism) for professional language ideologies and academic practices around salvage era representations of Yokuts and Western Mono narratives. Chapter 13, by Barbra A. Meek, presents a semiotic analysis of electronically circulating jokes with American Indian characters to show how they recreate and reproduce stereotypes. In chapter 14, Jennifer Roth-Gordon & Antonio José B. da Silva examine everyday conversations to explain how speakers use opposing voices to display racial consciousness. Chapter 15, by Deborah Cole & Régine Pellicer, explains how mediatization maintains the contradiction that arises when different speakers of American English acquire and perform other dialectal varieties. Chapter 16, by Richard Delgado, analyzes the connection between official English laws and the historical invisibility of Latino lynching.

The afterword, by Claire Bowern, concludes the volume, discussing Jane Hill's current research.