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This book explores the different types of compromises Indian people
were forced to make and must continue to do so in order to be
included in the colonizer's religion and culture. The contributors
in this collection are in conversation with the contributions made
by Tink Tinker, an American Indian scholar who is known for his
work on Native American liberation theology. The contributors
engage with the following questions in this book: How much of one's
identity must be sacrificed in order to belong in the world of the
colonizer? How much of one's culture requires silencing? And more
importantly, how can the colonized survive when constantly asked
and forced to compromise? Specifically, what is uniquely Indian and
gets completely lost in this interaction? Scholars of religious
studies, American studies, American Indian studies, theology,
sociology, and anthropology will find this book particularly
useful.
This book explores the different types of compromises Indian people
were forced to make and must continue to do so in order to be
included in the colonizer's religion and culture. The contributors
in this collection are in conversation with the contributions made
by Tink Tinker, an American Indian scholar who is known for his
work on Native American liberation theology. The contributors
engage with the following questions in this book: How much of one's
identity must be sacrificed in order to belong in the world of the
colonizer? How much of one's culture requires silencing? And more
important, how can the colonized survive when constantly asked and
forced to compromise. Specifically, what is uniquely Indian and
gets completely lost in this interaction? Scholars of religious
studies, American studies, American Indian studies, theology,
sociology, and anthropology will find this book particularly
useful.
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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