teachings of takwa’ahson tehota’a:ronte: language and land

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Published: Jun 21, 2017
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youth, place-based learning, land, language

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nahannee-fé schuitemaker
university of british columbia

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a conversation between ohkwá:ri and takwa'ahson explores the importance of language when speaking about    and with   the land   the conversation follows the ceremony of the building of the takwa’ahson tehota’a:ronte  a metaphor for traditional knowledges   the stories shared reflect on our relationship with land    and how language – both the language spoken and the words chosen to describe – influences that relationship   the conversation finishes   leaving the reader to ponder the ending

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schuitemaker, nahannee- fé. (2017). teachings of takwa’ahson tehota’a:ronte: language and land. Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies, 1(2). Retrieved from https://journals.sfu.ca/jcp/index.php/jcp/article/view/17
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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2017): Pedagogy and Place
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Author Biography

nahannee-fé schuitemaker, university of british columbia

nahannee-fé schuitemaker is a graduate student on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm at ubc   she is of kanien’kehá:ka, french-canadian and dutch heritage   she is completing a masters of arts in curriculum studies   her current work focuses on how mixed-indigenous women navigate identity and how they connect to place in urban centres when they may not have connection to their own ancestral lands   she also holds a double major in psychology and spanish with an emphasis on human rights and genocide studies in a global indigenous focus 

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