My self-in-relation-to learning Oneida/Onyota'a:ka language/culture via the English language
Subtitle: de-colonizing, problems, difficulties and language erasure : Oneida/Onyota'a:ka Nation : a case study
By: by Bmjk Brennus.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Oneida language -- Canada.; English language -- Canada.; Language and culture -- Canada.; Language attrition -- Canada -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Description: How the English language is a filter from which I view and interpret the world is explored in detail in this thesis. I am neither Oneida/Onyota'a:ka nor North American Indigenous. I would be incapable of understanding the Oneida/Onyota'a:ka language or culture on a deep level. I write about how the English language can be a hindrance to interpreting, understanding and researching, by  Outsiders, of Indigenous nations and their culture. I have endeavored to unmask my own Outsider, Western English intellectual worldview by utilizing Oneida/Onyota'a:ka language and culture to investigate my own culture. There are two facets to the research: the interviews of Oneida/Onyota'a:ka language teachers and my endeavor to acquire Oneida/Onyota'a:ka language. Academics practicing de-colonizing work, need to grapple with Indigenous languages to comprehend Indigenous cultures, and in doing so, they will find out more about their own language, its cultural biases and worldview.
Notes: Thesis (M.A.) --University of Toronto, 2005

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-139)

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