{"title":"Words Like Love by Tanaya Winder","authors":"No‘u Revilla","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84005085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In cooperation with elders of the Northern Arapaho Language and Culture Commission (NALCC), a language revitalization project using virtual reality is being developed, supported by a National Science Foundation grant. The origins of the project are explored, underlying methodologies examined, as well as the important role that the elders of the Northern Arapaho Language and Culture Commission play in guiding the goals of the grant: (a) exploring the potentials of virtual reality in language revitalization; (b) documenting spoken Arapaho language with an emphasis on hunting and animal migration stories and songs related to place names on the Wind River Indian Reservation and other locations in Wyoming and Colorado; and (c) developing virtual reality curricula units for Wind River Indian reservation K–12 schools. Difficulties in conducting research during the covid19 pandemic, especially with Indigenous communities that have been hit hard by the virus, impacted our methodology and project process. This project seeks to provide a blueprint for other scholars interested in working with tribes and grant agencies in using VR in language revitalization. The project engages the questions if and how VR and subsequent technologies can be used as decolonial tools to help reverse language loss and promote culture.
{"title":"Northern Arapaho Language Revitalization with Virtual Reality","authors":"Phineas Kelly, Chris Caskey Russell","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In cooperation with elders of the Northern Arapaho Language and Culture Commission (NALCC), a language revitalization project using virtual reality is being developed, supported by a National Science Foundation grant. The origins of the project are explored, underlying methodologies examined, as well as the important role that the elders of the Northern Arapaho Language and Culture Commission play in guiding the goals of the grant: (a) exploring the potentials of virtual reality in language revitalization; (b) documenting spoken Arapaho language with an emphasis on hunting and animal migration stories and songs related to place names on the Wind River Indian Reservation and other locations in Wyoming and Colorado; and (c) developing virtual reality curricula units for Wind River Indian reservation K–12 schools. Difficulties in conducting research during the covid19 pandemic, especially with Indigenous communities that have been hit hard by the virus, impacted our methodology and project process. This project seeks to provide a blueprint for other scholars interested in working with tribes and grant agencies in using VR in language revitalization. The project engages the questions if and how VR and subsequent technologies can be used as decolonial tools to help reverse language loss and promote culture.","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"109 1","pages":"60 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88588609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History by Katrina M. Phillips","authors":"Jessica Bissett Perea","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80920427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih Stories from the People of the Land by Leslie McCartney and The Gwich’in Tribal Council (review)","authors":"C. Fraser","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"106 1","pages":"142 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87612987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Daniels v. Canada: In and Beyond the Courts ed. by Nathalie Kermoal and Chris Andersen (review)","authors":"Laura Forsythe","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"6 1","pages":"103 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88402085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism ed. by Bronwyn Carlson and Jeff Berglund","authors":"Adam W. Coon","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84491259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collective Care: Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS by Pamela J. Downe","authors":"C. Doenmez","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79782927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Native Pride: Upward Bound and the Legacy of Isabel Bond by Tony Tekaroniake Evans (review)","authors":"Sterling Fluharty","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"62 1","pages":"150 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83155119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reviewed by: Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategies of Canadian Decolonization by Patrick Belanger, and: Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Dylan Robinson and Keavy Martin, and: Research & Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing through Indigenous Relationships by Shawn Wilson, Andrea V. Breen and Lindsay Dupré Sheryl Lightfoot (bio) Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategies of Canadian Decolonization by Patrick Belanger Rowman & Littlefield, 2019 Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Dylan Robinson and Keavy Martin Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016 Research & Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing through Indigenous Relationships by Shawn Wilson, Andrea V. Breen, and Lindsay Dupré Canadian Scholars, 2019 since 2015, when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) issued its Final Report and 94 Calls to Action, which described the proper pathway for reconciliation in Canada, there has been a virtual explosion of academic literature on how the TRC’s Calls to Action can and should be operationalized. Many have taken the position that reconciliation—and decolonization—must be Indigenous directed, while also holding settler society primarily responsible and accountable for most of the actions that reconciliation requires. Numerous scholars also hold that academia, especially its research function, have a key role to play in reconciliation processes. This collection of three books advances both ideas. Patrick Belanger opens his book Rhetoric and Settler Inertia by asking how rhetoric can aid in the decolonial process, primarily as a tool to persuade settlers who are resistant to change. Amid a wider body of literature about decolonial rhetoric and settler response, Belanger explores forms of rhetoric and methods of delivery that impact settlers’ willingness to change in pursuit of decolonization. Belanger concludes that rhetoric focused on interest convergence (mutual benefit) lends possible advantages to the [End Page 78] decolonial project that dialogue and education neglect. Working within an “X leads to Y” framework in which X is decolonial rhetoric and Y is settler action, Belanger identifies Z (mutual benefit) as a spurious variable. Accordingly, Belanger aims to reveal that settler buy-in to decolonization could accelerate the process of decolonization–as outlined by Indigenous nations–in demands for restitution. Belanger affirms that decolonization must be led by Indigenous People and seeks to determine whether “public reason might, through communication, triumph over money and violence” (96). Belanger’s proposed path for achieving this end is for rhetorical frameworks to facilitate interest convergence. Rhetoric and Settler Inertia usefully examines theoretical rhetorical work in practice and expands the boundaries of what rhetoric captures. It is interesting to consider whether r
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{"title":"Honor Thy Mother: The Untold Story of Aboriginal Women and their Indipino Children by Lucy Ostrander (review)","authors":"Clementine Bordeaux","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"47 1","pages":"164 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86300327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}