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OverviewStorytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Borrows makes use of the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how the work in Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. She follows Otter, a dodem (clan) relation from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, on a journey across Anishinaabe, Inuit, Māori, Coast Salish, and Abenaki territories, through a narrative of Indigenous resurgence. In doing so, she 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 people’s contemporary lives. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lindsay Keegitah BorrowsPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Weight: 0.360kg ISBN: 9780774836586ISBN 10: 077483658 Pages: 236 Publication Date: 01 September 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Place Where the Land Narrows / Neyaashiinigmiing 2 Our Land / Nunavut 3 Land of the Long White Cloud / Aotearoa 4 Place of Learning / Gabe-gikendaasoowigamig 5 The Salish Sea / Mayagi-Anishinaabe Kichi-Gaming 6 Sky-Tinted Waters / Minnesota 7 Return Home / Giiwe Epilogue Glossary; Notes; IndexReviews[T]he evocative language which Borrows offers in her telling of the creation story in her introduction, in her enmeshing of the realities of language revitalization in Canada and New Zealand in Chapter Three, and especially, I find, in her experiences in the Salish Sea in Chapter Five, talking with Raven, serves to make real for me as a reader the power of the stories as conduits to ecologically, linguistically, and legally precise truths. -- Jasmine Spencer, postdoctoral fellow in linguistics, University of Victoria * Canadian Literature * Author InformationLindsay Keegitah Borrows is a staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law in Vancouver. She is Anishinaabe and a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation in Ontario. Each fall in her home territory she helps run land-based Indigenous legal education camps for Ontario law schools. She has been a researcher at the Pascua Yaqui Tribal Court in Arizona, the United Nations, and the University of Victoria Indigenous Law Research Unit. She is a recipient of the Law Foundation of British Columbia Public Interest Award. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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