Language Ecology and Shift at Baawating, 1600-1971

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dc.contributor.advisorMartin, Ian
dc.contributor.authorMeades, Sean Brookfield
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-15T15:35:05Z
dc.date.available2021-11-15T15:35:05Z
dc.date.copyright2021-08
dc.date.issued2021-11-15
dc.date.updated2021-11-15T15:35:05Z
dc.degree.disciplineLinguistics and Applied Linguistics (Linguistics)
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractResearch focused on the macro-trends in Canadian language policy (LP) has largely focused on two broad trajectories: (a) the processes of accommodation of Anglophone and Francophone communities (including the limitations of Canada's policy of bilingualism for French-speaking or official-language minority communities) (Martel & Pquet, 2010; Morris, 2010; Cardinal, 2015); and (b) the ongoing exclusion of The Other (i.e. "immigrant" and Indigenous communities) within Canadas existing LP framework (Haque, 2012; Haque & Patrick, 2015; Patrick, 2018). This research turns its focus to the place of language in the state formation processes of Canada that preceded its "Bilingualism within a multicultural framework," and its place in settler/Indigenous relations and processes of colonization. Building on the paradigm of the Anishinaabe Seven Fires prophecies and a framework that emphasizes the interplay of language practices, beliefs and management in a social ecology, this work offers a case study of the specific experiences of Indigenous peoples in the communities surrounding Baawating (at the junction of Lake Superior and Lake Huron) to exemplify: (a) how Indigenous individuals adjusted their language choices in response to institutional language policy? (b) How Canadian Indian Policy more generally affected those language choices? (c) How these choices impacted relations between Indigenous and settler peoples? And (d) how local language practice, belief, and management processes have been impacted by the surrounding socio-economic, physical, political, and cultural environments? The study uses a mixed-methods approach that combines content analysis of language policy documents, historical records, demographic data and interviews of local Indigenous residents on their experiences of language choice and use to triangulate the interplay between macro-level LP, ideologies of language, and language shift. The research demonstrates the interconnection of LP with social, economic, political and technological domains and their corresponding influence on the linguistic choices available to Indigenous peoples, which precipitated large-scale language shift. Furthermore, it illuminates how language has been used to stand-in for race in the construction of idealized national subjects within a liberal order since at least the early twentieth century in Canada.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38743
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectPublic policy
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage policy
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage ecology
dc.subject.keywordsAnishinaabemowin
dc.subject.keywordsAnishinaabe language
dc.subject.keywordsAnishinaabe
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous languages
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian language policy
dc.subject.keywordsNorthern Ontario
dc.subject.keywordsMétis
dc.subject.keywordsMichif
dc.subject.keywordsMétis French
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous French
dc.subject.keywordsFrench in Canada
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous language revitalization
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian liberalism
dc.subject.keywordsBilingualism
dc.subject.keywordsMulticulturalism
dc.subject.keywordsMultilingualism
dc.subject.keywordsColonialism
dc.subject.keywordsColonization
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian state formation
dc.subject.keywordsColonial language policy
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage shift
dc.subject.keywordsHistory of language
dc.subject.keywordsSpeech community
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage ideologies
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage and race
dc.subject.keywordsLiberal order
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage maintenance
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage politics
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage and religion
dc.subject.keywordsVoyageurs
dc.subject.keywordsVoyageur
dc.subject.keywordsCoureurs des bois
dc.subject.keywordsResidential schools
dc.subject.keywordsResidential school
dc.subject.keywordsDay schools
dc.subject.keywordsDay school
dc.subject.keywordsIndian Act
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous policy
dc.subject.keywordsIndian policy
dc.subject.keywordsUpper Great Lakes
dc.subject.keywordsGarden River
dc.subject.keywordsBatchewana
dc.subject.keywordsSault Ste. Marie
dc.subject.keywordsBaawating
dc.subject.keywordsLake Superior
dc.subject.keywordsLake Huron
dc.subject.keywordsEthnography of language policy
dc.subject.keywordsHistoriography of language
dc.subject.keywordsSeven fires
dc.subject.keywordsShingwauk
dc.subject.keywordsAlgoma
dc.subject.keywordsShingwaukonse
dc.subject.keywordsNebenaigooching
dc.subject.keywordsLinguistic ecology
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage use
dc.subject.keywordsCommunity of practice
dc.subject.keywordsCommunities of practice
dc.subject.keywordsLiberalism
dc.subject.keywordsModernity
dc.subject.keywordsHigh modernity
dc.subject.keywordsOjibwe
dc.subject.keywordsOjibwa
dc.subject.keywordsOjibway
dc.subject.keywordsChippewa
dc.subject.keywordsOdaawaa
dc.subject.keywordsOdawa
dc.subject.keywordsOttawa
dc.subject.keywordsSteelton
dc.subject.keywordsFrançais sauvage
dc.subject.keywordsBraillais
dc.subject.keywordsBrayet
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian French
dc.subject.keywordsChippeway
dc.titleLanguage Ecology and Shift at Baawating, 1600-1971
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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