Ojibwe Discourse Markers resistance How did the lowly potato

How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions

including how the earth and its people had formed and developed over time

and the possibilities for a decolonial future

though they were born more than 100 years apart

Ojibwe Discourse Markers resistance How did the lowly potatoBrendan Fairbanks examines the challenging subject of discourse markers in Ojibwe, one of the many indigenous languages in the Algonquian family. Mille Lacs elder Jim Clark once described the discourse markers as little bugs that are holding on for dear life. For example, discourse markers such as "mii "and "gosha" exist only on the periphery of sentences to provide either cohesion or nuance to utterances. Fairbanks focuses on the discourse markers