Description
Book SynopsisTold in contemporary Anishinaabe storytelling style,
Otter’s Journey takes us across the globe to explore how the work in Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization.
Trade Review[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 *
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; Index
