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King Island, Alaska, has a relatively high place-name density of 45 place names per square
mile. King Island Inupiat elders and community members, with the help of Western scientists
(including a linguist, an anthropologist, an archaeologist and biologists), documented
163 place names over the 3.5 square mile area of King Island (Ugiuvak), Alaska. This is 1.5

The term body-snatcher has enjoyed a renaissance in the media recently, as various Māori
have moved to reclaim their deceased relations. From a Māori perspective, the claiming
of bodies has nothing to do with body-snatching, a term that referred to episodes in the
West. Indeed, Māori may see some laws themselves as instruments that snatch the body,

This paper provides theoretical insights into Aboriginal educational and social transformation
in Canada from an historical perspective. For almost a century, “decolonization” has
been the most effective, and yet most commonly deployed conceptual tool in the
writings on Aboriginal education. As an alternative to the decolonization paradigms,

This paper aims at exploring the issue of whether it is possible to treat translation simply
as a strategy in which semantic equivalence between the source language and the target
language is established, especially in the context of literary translation which involves socio
cultural communication, understanding of register, role relations and attitudinal aspects of

Using focus group methodology, we examined the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota idea of
wicozani (pronounced wee-cho’zah-nee), or “the good way of life”, as it relates to individual
and family life and assert its value in guiding functional adaptations. Additional theoretical