Restoring indigenous place names making Anishinaabe toponyms visible throughout the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation Elan Pochedley

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pochedley, Elan, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in indigenous environmental research

Cambridge elements. Elements in indigenous environmental research 2755-0826

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Names, Geographical--Ojibwa.

Names, Geographical.

Signs and signboards--Minnesota--White Earth Indian Reservation.

Signs and signboards.

White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.).

Minnesota--White Earth Indian Reservation.

Minnesota.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"Investigates the 2016 installation of Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) toponym signs throughout the White Earth Reservation, reflecting an ongoing tradition of Ojibwe linguistic preservation rooted in environmental knowledge of waters. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with White Earth citizens, descendants, and personnel, this work addresses how these public markers make Anishinaabemowin visible in the world for Ojibwe youth and other White Earth Anishinaabeg, while marking the reservation as an Ojibwe space. These place name signs, along with youth language programs, intervene in the legacy of imposed language loss of Anishinaabemowin on the White Earth Reservation caused by mission, day, and boarding schools. Examines Ojibwe people's intergenerational efforts to document place names, responses to these signs, and how they relate to toponymic authority and spatial belonging. Focuses on historic and contemporary stories of Ojibwe geographic relationships grounded in fishing, hunting, ricing, and gathering within and surrounding Gaa-waabaabiganikaag"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Introduction : restoring Indigenous place names in settler colonial contexts

Ojibwe place names : geographic belonging and the lives of Anishinaabe toponyms

“A lot of it wasn’t around in the atmosphere” : addressing legacies of imposed language and land loss through environmental print in Anishinaabemowin

Archival diving and atmosphere building for Ojibwe futures : intergenerational curation and cultivation of geographic knowledge

“We want the Ojibwe on the top. We’re not renaming something” : the politics of names, claims, and returns

Roots in White Clay : a pre-reservation history of Gaa-waabaabiganikaag

Conclusion : “It sits in your spirit and it starts taking root again” : mapping the endurance of Ojibwe geographic knowledge and relationships

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed April 20, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Pochedley, Elan Restoring indigenous place names

ISBN:

9781009704564

1009704567

9781009704588

1009704583

OCLC:

1568730729

Publisher Number:

CIPO000362967

Access Restriction:

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