Recentering Indigenous Land and Language: Reading and Walking the Land in Ojibwemowin

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of one case study from an episodes of a “forest walk” conducted during spring of 2018 near an Ojibwe reservation in the Midwest. We use this case as a focal point to demonstrate our analytic process for the entire set of 15 walks conducted in Anishinaabemowin. Through careful interactional analysis of micro-interactions, we begin to see patterns of engagements between youth, Elder, and land. Analysis of patterns magnifies ways humans/ land interactions are both structured by and structure through semiotic resources (Goodwin, 2000).

Authors

• Mary Hermes, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Mel M Engman, University of Minnesota