Many of the English translations of Indigenous languages that we
commonly use today have been handed down from colonial missionaries
whose intent was to fundamentally alter or destroy prior Indigenous
knowledge and praxis. In this text, author Mark D. Freeland
develops a theory of worldview that provides an interrelated
logical mooring to shed light on the issues around translating
Indigenous languages in and out of colonial languages. In tandem
with other linguistic and narrative methods, this theory of
worldview can be employed to help root out the reproduction of
colonial culture in Indigenous languages and can be a useful
addition to the repertoire of tools needed to return to life-giving
relationships with our environment. These issues of decolonization
are highlighted in the trajectory of treaty language associated
with relationships to land and their present-day importance. This
book uses the 1836 Treaty of Washington and its contemporary
manifestation in Great Lakes fishing rights and the State of
Michigan's 2007 Inland Consent Decree as a means of identifying the
role of worldview in deciphering the logics embedded in Anishinaabe
thought associated with these relationships to land. A fascinating
study for students of Indigenous and linguistic disciplines, this
book deftly demonstrates the significance of worldview theory in
relation to the logics of decolonization of Indigenous thought and
praxis.
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