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      FINDING INDIGENOUS DISCOURSE SURVIVANCE AND SENDING IT FORWARD

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      Date
      2017-04-25
      Author
      MacKay, Gail Ann 1959-
      ORCID
      0000-0001-6923-0857
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Doctoral
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      Abstract
      This research is an interdisciplinary study of rhetorical analyses of three textual forms made by Indigenous women local to the Saskatchewan parkland. My purpose was to identify the survivance of a tribally specific cultural rhetoric (meaning-making practices) in contemporary local Indigenous works. The rhetorical analyses were grounded in Cree, Métis and Saulteaux intellectual traditions accessible to me through observation, experience, and published literature. The Indigenous research methodology was guided by the principles inherent in the concepts of bimaadiziwin, (an Anishinaabe philosophy of being alive well), and wahkohtowin, (a Cree overarching law of respect and belonging), and n’kiinigaanaa, (an Anishinaabe principle of relating to all of creation in equality, and harmony). The data that emerged from my rhetorical analyses were consistent elements of meaning-making practices. I considered the question, “How do I translate this information to knowledge transfer to be useful in preparing pre-service teachers to teach Indigenous content and perspectives?” I sought an answer by referencing the data to the academic literature in literary criticism, literacy, sociolinguistics, narrative, and rhetoric. From the aggregate I adapted the rhetorical situation to represent a model of a local Indigenous rhetorical discourse to explain the elements of an Indigenous rhetorical situation. This model describes the creative expression and critical interpretation of meaning-making practices that are grounded in the principles, protocols, values, and beliefs of a northern plains Algonquian (Cree, Métis and Saulteaux) world view. The implications of the research are presented as potential benefit to teachers and students of Indigenous literatures and rhetorics.
      Degree
      Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
      Department
      Interdisciplinary Studies
      Program
      Curriculum Studies
      Supervisor
      Wason-Ellam, Linda
      Committee
      Moffatt, John; Wills, Jeanie; Bonita, Beatty; Van Styvendale, Nancy; Balzer, Geraldine
      Copyright Date
      April 2017
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/7816
      Subject
      Indigenous
      discourse
      survivance
      rhetoric
      Algonquian
      Anishinaabe
      Nêhiyaw
      Michf
      Saulteaux
      Cree
      Metis
      cultural rhetoric
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