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Otter's Journey Through Indigenous Language And Law
Hardback Edition: 1
Otter's Journey employs the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how Indigenous language revitalisation can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. Indigenous languages and laws need bodies to live in. Learning an endangered language and a suppressed legal system are similar experiences. When we bring language back to life, it becomes a medium for developing human relationships. Likewise, when laws are written on peoples hearts, true revitalization has occurred.
Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otters Journey, Lindsay Keegitah Borrows follows Otter, a dodem (clan) relation from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, on a journey across Anishinaabe, Inuit, Maori, Coast Salish, and Abenaki territories, through a narrative of Indigenous resurgence. While Otters Journey is guided by a literal truth, it also splices and recombines real-world events and characters.
Through her engaging protagonist, Borrows reveals that the processes, philosophies, and practices flowing from Indigenous languages and laws can emerge from under the layers of colonial laws, policies, and languages to become guiding principles in peoples contemporary lives. We need the best of all peoples teachings to lead us into the future.
Students and scholars in a wide range of subfields within Indigenous studies will find this book of considerable appeal, as will scholars and students of law, literature, education, and language studies, and those with an interest in Indigenous methodologies.
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Pages : 214
Publisher : University of British Columbia
Publication date : 2018-03-05
Subjects: Non-fiction, Art/design/film, Business / Law