Indigenous Peoples -- Canada -- Languages, Storytelling -- Social aspects -- Canada, Indigenous peoples -- Legal status laws etc. -- Canada, Language revitalization -- Canada, Storytelling -- Social aspects, Language revitalization, Indigenous peoples -- Legal status laws etc., Indigenous peoples -- Languages, Storytelling, Māori -- Languages, Māori - Legal status laws etc, Māori, Ojibwa, Inuit, Coast Salish 

"Otter’s Journey employs the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. Indigenous languages and laws need bodies to live in. Learning an endangered language and a suppressed legal system are similar experiences. When we bring language back to life, it becomes a medium for developing human relationships. Likewise, when laws are written on people’s hearts, true revitalization has occurred. Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Lindsay Keegitah Borrows follows Otter, a dodem (clan) relation from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, on a journey across Anishinaabe, Inuit, Māori, Coast Salish, and Abenaki territories, through a narrative of Indigenous resurgence. While Otter’s Journey is guided by a literal truth, it also splices and recombines real-world events and characters."--WorldCat.org. 

xix, 214 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 24 cm. 

Contents:
Place where the land narrows --
Our land --
Land of the long white cloud --
Place of learning --
The Salish sea --
Sky-tinted waters --
Return home.

Includes bibliographical references and index.