ENGL 1128 Lecture Notes - Neocolonialism
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Discourse: a new way of understanding and communicating that is recognized and allowed by a society (from landow) Indigenous knowledge, or cree poetics, is organic; it involves an embodied and spiritual and understanding of the world that connects symbols, stories and knowledge with history, ancestors and land and individuals. It is necessary to build a positive space of indigenous knowledge in the contemporary world to rescue indigenous knowledge from the narrative violence of colonialism and neo-colonialism (academia: plot. We often do no value our traditions (660) Cree poetics link human beings to the rest of the world through the process of mamahtawisiwin, the process of tapping into the great mystery, which, in turn, is mediated by historicity and wahkohtown (kinship) (657) Connected to kehte-ayak (old ones) and storytellers. Ginkuyu the language of our immediate and wider community, and the language of our work in the field.
