KANÓN’SEN, REVIVING, REVITALIZING, AND REAWAKENING A DORMANT PRACTICE AND LANGUAGE AMONGST THE ROTINONHSIÓN:NI PEOPLE
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2023-05
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This dissertation provides a critical analysis of Rotinonhsión:ni tattooing history and traditions that have gone dormant over two centuries ago, and it also describes the work that has inspired the revival into Rotinonhsión:ni society in the 21st century. Onkwehón:we research methodologies such as Irocentrism, Voiceability, and Storywork have all been utilized in the process of gathering and analyzing the information associated with Rotinonhsión:ni tattooing traditions, and the efforts being undertaken to revitalize the practice in a culturally congruent manner. Several parts of this work are provided as an auto-ethnography, as my personal experiences as a scholar practitioner in the tattoo revival for the Kanien’kehá:ka and Rotinonhsión:ni are interconnected to this body of research.Many different movements and experiences associated with Kanien’kehá:ka and Rotinonhsión:ni language and culture revitalization, as well as struggles for self-determination are described in this research. These actions show the historic pathways that were created which led to the revival efforts currently being undertaken today to reinvigorate Rotinonhsión:ni tattooing traditions. The description of these movements, experiences and struggles provides a glimpse into the epistemology, cosmology, ontology, and axiology that make up the Rotinonhsión:ni culture and traditions that continues today.
This dissertation is the first comprehensive collection and analysis of Rotinonhsión:ni and Kanien’kehá:ka tattooing traditions from a Kanien’kehá:ka perspective and place. This is a first step toward telling our story as Onkwehón:we who are working to breathe life back into a practice that was lost to us for over two centuries.
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Cultural anthropology, Language, History, Irocentrism, Kanien'kehá:ka, Language and culture revitalization, Onkwehón:we methodologies, Rotinonhsión:ni, tattooing
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