Dadibaajim : returning home through narrative
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- ISBN: 9780887559549 (paperback)
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xiv, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Bezig / One: Ninamegosibii Anishinaabewimin / We Are the People of Trout Water -- Niinzhin / Two: Wenji Gikendamang / How We Know -- Nisin / Three: Wenji Inendamang / Subjectivity -- Niiwin / Four: Ezhibii'igaazoyang / How We Are Written -- Naanan / Five: Wenji-Anishinaabewiyang / Our Anishinaabe Selves -- Ingodôso / Six: Ni Noopimakamig-aajimomin / Our Boreal Narratives -- Niinzhôso / Seven: Wemitigoozhiiwaadiziwin / Colonial Identity -- Nishôso / Eight: Gaa Bii-izhi Gikendamang / Anishinaabe Rectitude -- Zhaangaso / Nine: Gaa'izhibii'igaazoyang Mewinzha / Historical Texts -- Zagakibii'igem / Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Glossary of Namegosibii Anishinaabemowin Terms -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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The Pas Campus Library | E 99 .C6 A43 2021 (Text) | 58500000807859 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
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This book presents dadibaajim, or oral narratives, of eight community members of the Namegosibii Anishinaabeg people of northwest Ontario, Canada, detailing events, teachings, belief systems, and descriptions of lands that comprise their sense of distinctiveness; replacing oversights, erasures, and falsifications about the region; and contributing to the formalization of their identity, including their experiences of colonialism and neoliberalism. Distributed in the US by Longleaf Services Inc. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - The University of North Carolina Press
Dadibaajim examines that history of encroaching settlement and dispossession as it reasserts the voices and presence of the Namegosibii Anishinaabeg too long ignored for the convenience of settler society.
- The University of North Carolina Press
Dadibaajim narratives are of and from the land, born from experience and observation. Invoking this critical Anishinaabe methodology for teaching and learning, Helen Olsen Agger documents and reclaims the history, identity, and inherent entitlement of the Namegosibii Anishinaabeg to the care, use, and occupation of their Trout Lake homelands. When Aggerâs mother, Dedibaayaanimanook, was born in 1922, the community had limited contact with Euro-Canadian settlers and still lived throughout their territory according to seasonal migrations along agricultural, hunting, and fishing routes. By the 1940s, colonialism was in full swing: hydro development had resulted in major flooding of traditional territories, settlers had overrun Trout Lake for its resource, tourism, and recreational potential, and the Namegosibii Anishinaabe were forced out of their homelands in Treaty 3 territory, north-western Ontario. Agger mines an archive of treaty paylists, census records, and the work of influential anthropologists like A.I. Hallowell, but the dadibaajim narratives of eight community members spanning three generations form the heart of this book. Dadibaajim provide the framework that fills in the silences and omissions of the colonial record. Embedded in Anishinaabe language and epistemology, they record how the people of Namegosibiing experienced the invasion of interlocking forces of colonialism and globalized neo-liberalism into their lives and upon their homelands. Ultimately, Dadibaajim is a message about how all humans may live well on the earth.