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Mary Hermes, Mel Engman, Aila O’Loughlin + Anna Schick
University of Minnesota (Hermes+ Schick) Queen's University Belfast (Engman) North Hennepin Community College (O'Loughlin)
Mary Hermes is associate professor at University of Minnesota Duluth. Mel Engman is lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast. Aila O'Loughlin is assistant professor of philosophy at North Hennepin Community College. Ann Schick is graduate instructor at University of Minnesota
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Co-Conspiring with Land: What Decolonising with Indigenous Language and the Land Have to Teach Us
October 8, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Associated Edited Volumes: 3
Dominant Western/Northern conceptions of language as an object allow it to be excised from context and held as something static and bounded through its description in grammars and its deployment in various colonial projects. Indigenous epistemologies know language as embedded in a context of relations with bodies, beings, spaces, and time. Writing from perspectives informed by Indigenous epistemologies and language reclamation, we offer perspectives on what a shift to seeing the “non-human,” or natural world, in terms of animated relationships means for research with Indigenous languages