In her seminal work Decolonizing methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, Maori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith has identified naming as one of 25 decolonizing projects because “naming … is about retaining as much control as possible.”
One example of a naming project is the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance (NIKLA) First Nations, Métis, and Inuit – Indigenous Ontologies project.
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