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A collaboration exploring the importance of the Ojibway-Anishinabe worldview, use of ceremony, and language in living a good life, attaining true reconciliation, and resisting the notions of indigenization and colonialization inherent in Western institutions.
Indigenization within the academy and the idea of truth and reconciliation within Canada have been seen as the remedy to correct the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canadian society. While honourable, these actions are difficult to achieve given the Western nature of institutions in Canada and the collective memory of its citizens, and the burden of proof has always been the responsibility of Anishinabeg.
Authors Makwa Ogimaa (Jerry Fontaine) and Ka-pi-ta-aht (Don McCaskill) tell their di-bah-ji-mo-wi-nan (Stories of personal experience) to provide insight into the cultural, political, social, and academic events of the past fifty years of Ojibway-Anishinabe resistance in Canada. They suggest that Ojibway-Anishinabe i-zhi-chi-gay-win zhigo kayn-dah-so-win (Ways of doing and knowing) can provide an alternative way of living and thriving in the world. This distinctive worldview — as well as Ojibway-Anishinabe values, language, and ceremonial practices — can provide an alternative to Western political and academic institutions and peel away the layers of colonialism, violence, and injustice, speaking truth and leading to true reconciliation.
Indigenization within the academy and the idea of truth and reconciliation within Canada have been seen as the remedy to correct the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canadian society. While honourable, these actions are difficult to achieve given the Western nature of institutions in Canada and the collective memory of its citizens, and the burden of proof has always been the responsibility of Anishinabeg.
Authors Makwa Ogimaa (Jerry Fontaine) and Ka-pi-ta-aht (Don McCaskill) tell their di-bah-ji-mo-wi-nan (Stories of personal experience) to provide insight into the cultural, political, social, and academic events of the past fifty years of Ojibway-Anishinabe resistance in Canada. They suggest that Ojibway-Anishinabe i-zhi-chi-gay-win zhigo kayn-dah-so-win (Ways of doing and knowing) can provide an alternative way of living and thriving in the world. This distinctive worldview — as well as Ojibway-Anishinabe values, language, and ceremonial practices — can provide an alternative to Western political and academic institutions and peel away the layers of colonialism, violence, and injustice, speaking truth and leading to true reconciliation.
Price: $19.99
Pages: 328
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
22 March 2022
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781459748996
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
These messages must be for ourselves first and foremost in that a much-neglected area in our struggle is the reclaiming of our minds — our own imaginations. Di-bayn-di-zi-win will be useful for our people here in New Zealand and many of the Indigenous jurisdictions I have worked with across the world.
Makwa Ogimaa (Jerry Fontaine) is Ojibway-Anishinabe from the Ojibway-Anishinabe community of Sagkeeng in Manitoba. He was (indian act) Chief during the period 1987 to 1998 and has been an adviser to Anishinabe communities and industry. Jerry currently teaches in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Winnipeg. He lives in Traverse Bay, Manitoba.
Ka-pi-ta-aht (Don McCaskill) is professor emeritus in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Trent University, where he taught for forty-seven years and served as chair for thirteen years. He has edited seven books in the fields of Anishinabe culture, education, community development, and urbanization. Don lives in Toronto.
Ka-pi-ta-aht (Don McCaskill) is professor emeritus in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Trent University, where he taught for forty-seven years and served as chair for thirteen years. He has edited seven books in the fields of Anishinabe culture, education, community development, and urbanization. Don lives in Toronto.
Contents
Maa-ji-taa (We Begin)
Niinitam (My Turn) Don McCaskill
1 Ka-pi-ta-aht di-bah-ji-mo (Don McCaskill Tells His Story)
2 Niizhwasso ishkode (Seventh Fire): Political Resistance and Ojibway-Anishinabe Cultural Renewal
4 Makwa Ogimaa di-bah-ji-mo (Jerry Fontaine Shares His Story)
6 Ni-noon-dah-wah-min in-way-wahd gi-gay-tay anishinabeg on-ji-ning-gi-kayn-dah-so-min wayn-ji-da ji-ga-gway-dwaywi-nan (We hear the voices of our ancestors because we know how to ask the most basic questions)
Timeline of Events
Maah-ni-ka-no-tah-gay-win (Interpretation and Glossary)
Meegwetchiwenimaad (Acknowledgements)
Notes
Index
About the Authors
Maa-ji-taa (We Begin)
Niinitam (My Turn) Don McCaskill
1 Ka-pi-ta-aht di-bah-ji-mo (Don McCaskill Tells His Story)
2 Niizhwasso ishkode (Seventh Fire): Political Resistance and Ojibway-Anishinabe Cultural Renewal
- Cultural Renewal of the Seventh Fire: Anishinabe Ways of Doing and Knowing and Nah-nahn-gah-dah-wayn-ji-gay-win (How we came to think this way about our reality)
- The Continuance of Resistance and Revival
- Residential School System
- Environmental Protests
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- Has Resurgence Made a Difference?
- The Academic Program
- Applied Community Program
- Political Advocacy and Outside Pressures
- The Cultural Component
- Trent Department Expansion
- Bezhig onaagan gaye bezhig emikwan, biin-di-go-daa-di-win, and naa-wi aki: A Culturally Based Approach to Reconciliation and Indigenizing the Academy
- Challenges
- Moving Forward
4 Makwa Ogimaa di-bah-ji-mo (Jerry Fontaine Shares His Story)
- Ni di-bah-jim (I’ll share my story)
- Kay-go-wah-ni-kayn andi-wayn-ji-ahn (Don’t ever forget where you come from)
- O-di-ni-gay-win zhigo Nay-nahn-do-jee-kayn-chi-gayd (Digging Around and Doing Research)
- Nah-nahn-gah-dah-wayn-ji-gay-win (How we came to think this way about our reality)
- I-nah-di-zi-win (Our way of being and way of life)
- Ojibway-anishinabe i-zhi-chi-gay-win zhigo kayn-dah-so-win gemaa a-zhi-kay-ni-mo-nahd-a-di-sid bay-mah-di-sid (Ojibway-Anishinabe ways of doing and knowing or how we used our way of thinking and ceremonies to find answers)
6 Ni-noon-dah-wah-min in-way-wahd gi-gay-tay anishinabeg on-ji-ning-gi-kayn-dah-so-min wayn-ji-da ji-ga-gway-dwaywi-nan (We hear the voices of our ancestors because we know how to ask the most basic questions)
- Di-bah-ji-mo-win o-nah-ko-nah (To ceremonially call upon the story)
- Di-bah-ji-mo maa-gi-zhaa gaye mah-zhi-nay-bi’i-gay (The story is shared and then maybe written)
- Ah-way-chi-gay-win (To teach by telling a story)
Timeline of Events
Maah-ni-ka-no-tah-gay-win (Interpretation and Glossary)
Meegwetchiwenimaad (Acknowledgements)
Notes
Index
About the Authors