Open AccessUumasuusivissuaq: Spirit and Indigenous Writing
Author(s) -
Karla Jessen Williamson
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1927-6117
DOI - 10.37119/ojs2014.v20i2.168
Subject(s) - praxis , indigenous , decolonization , poetry , scholarship , narrative , soul , sociology , aesthetics , literature , anthropology , epistemology , philosophy , art , political science , law , politics , ecology , biology
The scholarship on Indigenous peoples is deeply steeped in colonization and often assumes a Western perspective. I start this article with my poetry as a female kalaaleq (Inuk from Greenland) poet. I contextualize my writing through discussions on praxis and new knowledge creation through poetry. In this article, I argue for a process of decolonization of written, academic knowledge on Indigenous peoples by inviting Indigenous writers to consider writing in poetry form, which comes from giftedness of inner soul-namely the spirit.Keywords: epistemology; narrative; Inuit worldview; decolonization; praxis