AlterNative Volume 5, Issue 1

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FOREWORD [2]

Author:

Tracey McIntosh and Michael Walker

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“ALMOST EVERY PLACE, EVERY ROCK, HAD A NAME”: A consideration of place-name density on King Island, Alaska [5]

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Author:

Deanna Paniataaq Kingston

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

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“BODY-SNATCHING”: Changes to coroners legislation and possible Māori responses [9]

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Author:

Carl Mika

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,

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ABORIGINAL EDUCATION IN CANADA: A postcolonial analysis [13]

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Author:

Malreddy Pavan Kumar

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,

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LITERARY TRANSLATION AND ITS LIMITATIONS IN THE WIDER SPECTRUM OF CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION [17]

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Author:

Hemanga Dutta

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

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TURUTURU: Integrating Indigenous and Western knowledge [21]

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Author:

Debra J. Carr

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Rua McCallum

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PURSUING WICOZANI (THE GOOD WAY OF LIFE): Functional adaptations through Dakota lifeways [25]

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Author:

Matthew Garrett, Joseph White, Adam Galovan, Kathryn Akipa and Brenden Rensink

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

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TĀLANGA: Theorizing a Tongan mode of interpretation [29]

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Author:

Nāsili Vaka‘uta

This article explores an alter-native (that is, to use native insights to alter existing knowledge and modes, and to alter native insights if they tend to serve the interests of colonizers/outsiders rather than the colonized/locals) way of reading the Bible based on the Tongan notion of tālanga, and from the perspective of a Tongan tu‘a (commoner).

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BOOK REVIEW: Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics and Politics [33]

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Author:

Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed

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