Tag: indigenous cultures
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In an earlier post, we shared James Vukelich’s lessons from the Ojibwe people and their language on how to speak about trees, learning the Ojibwe word ‘Mitig.‘ He discussed how the word is an animate noun used in a context similar to referring to a relative. This grammatical pattern is central to the workings of…
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Wisdom from the Anishinaabe / Ojibwe people and language. You wonder how our world, attitudes, and this elder tree’s fate would change if we shifted our references and relationships. View this post on Instagram A post shared by James Vukelich (@jamesvukelich) Featured Image: Yggdrasil World Tree – From Northern Antiquities, an English translation of the Prose Edda from…