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ERIC Number: EJ1261359
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1927-6117
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"Uumasuusivissuaq": Spirit and Indigenous Writing
Williamson, Karla Jessen
in education, v20 n2 p135-146 Aut 2014
The scholarship on Indigenous peoples is deeply steeped in colonization and often assumes a Western perspective. I start this article with my poetry as a female "kalaaleq" (Inuk from Greenland) poet. I contextualize my writing through discussions on praxis and new knowledge creation through poetry. In this article, I argue for a process of decolonization of written, academic knowledge on Indigenous peoples by inviting Indigenous writers to consider writing in poetry form, which comes from giftedness of inner soul-namely the spirit.
University of Regina, Faculty of Education. Education Building, 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK S4S 0A2. e-mail: editor@ineducation.ca; Web site: https://ineducation.ca/ineducation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Greenland
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