Aazheyaadizi: Worldview, Language, and the Logics of Decolonization

Aazheyaadizi: Worldview, Language, and the Logics of DecolonizationMany 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

and he depicts the astonishing success of the language program at Lac Courte Oreilles

including Ho-Chunk

and she does so by raising intelligent new questions about many of the current trends of academia

“[A] searingly intelligent

but always strong

They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances

She encounters racism and ridicule

Employing humor as an act of resistance

Fidelis sets out for America

But for Cedar

Fry bread is nation

38 page introduction to the language and life ways of the Ojibwe people