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We remember the coming of the white man
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26188
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Blondin, Walter; Blondin, George; Goose, Leanne; Mountain, Antoine; Stewart, Sarah; Yakeleya, Raymond; and Dene Elders; foreword by Blondin, Walter.
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : Durvile & UpRoute Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 St4w
- Responsibility
- Edited by Sarah Stewart and Raymond Yakeleya
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : Durvile & UpRoute Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.)
- Subjects
- Dene
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Customs
- Language
- Non-fiction
- Oral History
- Abstract
- Chapters are transcripts of oral histories from the early twentieth century, by ten elders of the Dene people, about the early days of fur trading, guns, and missionaries; their dismay about the way oil and uranium discoveries and pipelines were handled on their land; and the emotional fallout of the signing of Treaty 11.
- Contents
- Preface / Raymond Yakeleya -- Part I, Reflections. Foreward, Walter Blondin -- Treaty 11, Sarah Stewart -- We remember, Raymond Yakeleya -- The Dene nation / Sarah Stewart -- The Métis experience / Colette Poitras -- Part II, The elders remember. The elders / Elizabeth Yakeleya, Sarah Simon, Mary Wilson, Joe Blondin, John Blondin, Isadore Yukon, Johnny Kaye, Jim Edwards Sittichinli, Peter Thompson, Andrew Kunnizzi -- Early days -- Fur, guns, contact -- Family life -- Boat time -- Missionaries -- Oil discovery -- Treaty 11 -- The sickness -- Uranium -- First machines -- The mad trapper -- Canol road -- Mackenzie Valley pipeline -- Time of change -- Part III Stories from the people. Tutichak, Leanne Goose -- How the muskrat created the world / Antoine Mountain, Maurice Mendo -- The slingshot and the songbird / Raymond Yakeleya -- In the land of the Na?àcho / George Blondin -- The drums / George Blondin -- When the white people came / George Blondin -- Acknowledgments -- Authors -- The spirit of nature series.
- Notes
- Companion DVD includes "We remember the coming of the white man" directed by Raymond Yakeleya, 1978, 55 min. Remastered and produced in 2020. Includes director's commentary.
- ISBN
- 9781988824635
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 07.2 St4w
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25691
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : Zest Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15s
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Responsibility
- Adapted by Monique Gray Smith ; Illustrations by Nicole Neidhardt
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : Zest Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Abstract
- Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Meeting sweetgrass. An invitation to remember ; Skywoman falling ; Wiingaashk -- Planting sweetgrass. The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod -- Tending sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; Allegiance to gratitude -- Picking sweetgrass.Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest -- Braiding sweetgrass. In the footsteps of Nanabozho : becoming indigenous to place ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Old-growth children -- Burning sweetgrass. Windigo footprints People of corn, people of light ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo.
- ISBN
- 9781728458991
- Accession Number
- P2023.03
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15s
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- Archives Library
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Voicing identity : cultural appropriation and Indigenous issues
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25701
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 B94v
- Responsibility
- Edited by John Borrows and Kent McNeil
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- vi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researching, writing, and teaching about Indigenous peoples. This book grapples with the question: who is qualified to engage in these activities and how can this be done appropriately and respectfully? The authors address these questions from their own individual perspectives and experiences, often revealing personal struggles and their ongoing attempts to resolve them. There is diversity in perspectives and approaches, but also a common goal: to conduct research and teach in respectful ways that enhance understanding of Indigenous histories, cultures, and rights, and promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Bringing together contributors with diverse backgrounds and unique experiences, Voicing Identity will be of interest to students and scholars studying Indigenous issues as well as anyone seeking to engage in the work of making Canada a model for just relations between the original peoples and newcomers.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction / John Borrows and Kent McNeil -- 1. Su-taxwiye: Keeping My Name Clean / Sarah Morales -- 2. At the Corner of Hawks and Powell: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous People, and the Conundrum of Double Permanence / Keith Thor Carlson -- 3. Look at Your "Pantses": The Art of Wearing and Representing Indigenous Culture as Performative Relationship / Aime´e Craft -- 4. Indigenous Legal Traditions, De-sacralization, Re-sacralization, and the Space for Not-Knowing / Hadley Friedland -- 5. Mino-audjiwaewin: Choosing Respect, Even in Times of Conflict / Lindsay Borrows -- 6. "How Could You Sleep When Beds Are Burning?" Cultural Appropriation and the Place of Non-Indigenous Academics / Felix Hoehn -- 7. Who Should Teach Indigenous Law? / Karen Drake and A. Christian Airhart -- 8. Reflections on Cultural Appropriation / Michael Asch -- 9. Turning Away from the State: Cultural Appropriation in the Shadow of the Courts / John Borrows -- 10. Voice and Indigenous Rights from a Non-Indigenous Perspective / Robert Hamilton -- 11. Guided by Voices? Perspective and Pluralism in the Constitutional Order / Joshua Ben David Nichols -- 12. NONU WEL,WEL TI,A´ NE T ,E E : Our Canoe Is Really Tippy / kQwa'st'not and Hannah Askew -- 13. Sharp as a Knife: Judge Begbie and Reconciliation / Hamar Foster -- 14. On Getting It Right the First Time: Researching the Constitution Express / Emma Feltes -- 15. Confronting Dignity Injustices / Sa'ke'j Henderson
- ISBN
- 9781487544683
- Accession Number
- P2023.10
- Call Number
- 07.2 B94v
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- Archives Library
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Aboriginal TM : the cultural and economic politics of recognition
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25713
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Adese, Jennifer
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 A3a
- Author
- Adese, Jennifer
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Tourism
- Language
- Politics
- Abstract
- In Aboriginal™, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term "Aboriginal" and its displacement by the word "Indigenous." In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term's express purpose was to speak to the "aboriginal rights" acknowledged in Section 35(1). Yet in the wake of the Constitution's passage, Aboriginal, in its capitalized form, became far more closely aligned with Section 35(2)'s interpretation of which specific groups held those rights, and was increasingly used to describe and categorize people. More than simple legal and political vernacular, the term Aboriginal (capitalized or not) has had real-world consequences for the people it defined. Aboriginal™ argues the term was a tool used to advance Canada's cultural and economic assimilatory agenda throughout the 1980s until the mid-2010s. Moreover, Adese illuminates how the word engenders a kind of "Aboriginalized multicultural" brand easily reduced to and exported as a nation brand, economic brand, and place brand--at odds with the diversity and complexity of Indigenous peoples and communities. In her multi-disciplinary research, Adese examines the discursive spaces and concrete sites where Aboriginality features prominently: the Constitution Act, 1982; the 2010 Vancouver Olympics; the "Aboriginal tourism industry"; and the Vancouver International Airport. Reflecting on the term's abrupt exit from public discourse and the recent turn toward Indigenous, Indigeneity, and Indigenization, Aboriginal™ offers insight into Indigenous-Canada relations, reconciliation efforts, and current discussions of Indigenous identity, authenticity, and agency. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Aboriginal, aboriginality, aboriginalism, aboriginalization: what's in a word? -- Aboriginalized multiculturalism tm: Canada's olympic national brand -- Selling Aboriginal experiences and authenticity: Canadian and Aboriginal tourism -- Marketing aboriginality and the branding of place: the case of Vancouver international airport -- Conclusion: thoughts on the end of aboriginalization and the turn to indigenization.
- Notes
- Title appears with the trademark symbol after the word "Aboriginal".
- ISBN
- 9781772840056
- Accession Number
- P2023.09
- Call Number
- 07.2 A3a
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- Archives Library
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Shin-chi's canoe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26185
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Campbell, Nicola I.
- Publisher
- Toronto, ON : Groundwood Books ; House of Anansi Press
- Edition
- 10th
- Call Number
- 05 C15s
- 05 C15s Reference copy
- Author
- Campbell, Nicola I.
- Responsibility
- Illustrated by Kim LaFave
- Edition
- 10th
- Publisher
- Toronto, ON : Groundwood Books ; House of Anansi Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 40 pages ; ill.
- Abstract
- Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. As they begin their journey in the back of a cattle truck, Shi-shi-etko tells her brother all the things he must remember: the trees, the mountains, the rivers and the salmon. Shin-chi knows he won't see his family again until the sockeye salmon return in the summertime. When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko gives him a tiny cedar canoe, a gift from their father. The children's time is filled with going to mass, school for half the day, and work the other half. The girls cook, clean and sew, while the boys work in the fields, in the woodshop and at the forge. Shin-chi is forever hungry and lonely, but, finally, the salmon swim up the river and the children return home for a joyful family reunion. -- From Publisher.
- ISBN
- 9780888998576
- Accession Number
- P2023.17 (2)
- Call Number
- 05 C15s
- 05 C15s Reference copy
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- Archives Library
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Me´tis rising : living our present through the power of our past
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26200
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : Purich Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 B71m
- Responsibility
- Edited by Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : Purich Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- viii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- Me´tis Rising draws on a remarkable cross-section of perspectives to tell the histories, stories, and dreams of people from varied backgrounds, demonstrating that there is no single Me´tis experience - only a common sense of belonging and a commitment to justice. The contributors to this unique collection, most of whom are Me´tis themselves, examine often-neglected aspects of Me´tis existence in Canada. They trace a turbulent course, illustrating how Me´tis leaders were born out of the need to address abhorrent social and economic disparities following the Me´tis-Canadian war of 1885. They talk about the long and arduous journey to rebuild the Me´tis nation from a once marginalized and defeated people; their accounts ranging from personal reflections on identity to tales of advocacy against poverty and poor housing. And they address the indictment of the jurisdictional gap whereby neither federal nor provincial governments would accept governance responsibility towards Me´tis people. Me´tis Rising is an extraordinary work that exemplifies how contemporary Me´tis identity has been forged by social, economic, and political concerns into a force to be reckoned with."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Part 1: History, Identity, and Belonging -- River Water Flows through Our Veins / Leah Dorion and Curtis Breaton -- What's a Me´tis, Anyway? / Catherine Littlejohn -- The Right to Self-Identify as Me´tis at School / Jonathan Anuik -- Ancestral Knowledge in a Contemporary World / Yvonne Vizina -- Part 2: Leadership and Relationship Building -- Fire Starters and Keepers / Laura-Lee Bellehumeur-Kearns -- Finding a Way around the Jurisdictional Gaps / Tricia Logan -- Navigating Troubled Political Waters for Better Housing / Nathalie Kermoal -- Demanding the Right to Care for Their Own Children / Allyson Stevenson -- Part 3: Exercising Our Rights and Self-Determination -- Who Will Come to Bury You? / Paul Chartrand -- Wiichihiwayshinawn / Margaret Kress -- Stoking the Embers: A Story of Realizing Decolonizing Aims with the Me´tis through Media Agancy / Yvonne Poitras Pratt -- A Me´tis Woman's Journey of Discovery / Judith G. Bartlett
- ISBN
- 9780774880756
- Accession Number
- P2023.23
- Call Number
- 07.2 B71m
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- Archives Library
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Unpapered : writers consider Native American identity and cultural belonging
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26195
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 G46u
- Responsibility
- Edited by Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- History
- Turtle Island
- Identity
- Colonialism
- Abstract
- Unpapered is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins. Native heritage is neither simple nor always clearly documented, and citizenship is a legal and political matter of sovereign nations determined by such criteria as blood quantum, tribal rolls, or community involvement. Those who claim a Native cultural identity often have family stories of tenuous ties dating back several generations. Given that tribal enrollment was part of a string of government programs and agreements calculated to quantify and dismiss Native populations, many writers who identify culturally and are recognized as Native Americans do not hold tribal citizenship. With essays by Trevino Brings Plenty, Deborah Miranda, Steve Russell, and Kimberly Wieser, among others, Unpapered charts how current exclusionary tactics began as a response to “pretendians”—non-indigenous people assuming a Native identity for job benefits—and have expanded to an intense patrolling of identity that divides Native communities and has resulted in attacks on peoples’ professional, spiritual, emotional, and physical states. An essential addition to Native discourse, Unpapered shows how social and political ideologies have created barriers for Native people truthfully claiming identities while simultaneously upholding stereotypes --Publisher's description.
- Contents
- Introduction / by Diane Glancy -- Show Your Papers. Paperwork / Kim Shuck -- Things you can do with your chart for calculating quantum of Indian blood / Deborah Miranda -- The white box / Kimberly L. Becker -- Seeking the Indian gravy train / Steve Russell -- Unpapered / Diane Glancy -- Finding the Way. On Chumash Land / Terra Trevor -- A salmon-fishing story / Abigail Chabitnoy -- Confessions of a detribalized mixed-blood / Jeanetta Calhoun Mish -- Thinking with Bigfoot about a Jackpine Savage : cryptogenealogical reflections / Carter Meland -- Identity Wars. "You don't look Indian" / Michele Leonard -- Pretend Indian exegesis : the pretend Indian uncanny valley hypothesis in literature and beyond / Trevino Brings Plenty -- Dead Indians. Live Indians. Legal Indians. / Ron Querry -- The animals' ballgame / Geary Hobson -- We never spoke / Linda Boyden -- Why We Matter. On being Chamorro and belonging to Guam / Craig Santos Perez -- Aunt Ruby's little sister dances / Kimberly Wieser -- Buffalo heads in diners : remnant populations / Denise Dotson Low -- And thus the tribes diminish / Linda Rodriguez.
- ISBN
- 9781496235008
- Accession Number
- P2023.15
- Call Number
- 07.2 G46u
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- Archives Library
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Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26196
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 St2i
- Responsibility
- Edited by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Aime´e Craft, and Hokulani K Aikau
- Publisher
- Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- vi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Reconciliation
- Colonialism
- Identity
- Gender
- Abstract
- What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks. The essays in this collection centre the work of Indigenous communities, knowledge, and strategies for resurgence and, where appropriate, reconciliation. The book challenges narrow interpretations of indigeneity and resurgence, asking readers to take up a critical analysis of how settler colonial and heteronormative framings have infiltrated our own ways of relating to our selves, one another, and to place. The authors seek to (re)claim Indigenous relationships to the political and offer critical self-reflection to ensure Indigenous resurgence efforts do not reproduce the very conditions and contexts from which liberation is sought. Illuminating the interconnectivity between and across life in all its forms, this important collection calls on readers to think expansively and critically about Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Artist Statement / Lianne Marie Leda Charlie -- Introduction: Generating a Critical Resurgence Together / Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark-- Part 1: Realizing Resurgence Together. 1. Beyond the Grammar of Settler Apologies / Mishuana Goeman -- 2. Spirit and Matter: Resurgence as Rising and (Re)creation as Ethos / Dian Million -- 3. Removing Weeds so Natives Can Grow: A Metaphor Reconsidered / Hokulani K. Aikau -- 4. (Ad)dressing Wounds: Expansive Kinship Inside and Out / Dallas Hunt -- Part 2: Claiming Our Relationships to the Political. 5. Beyond Rights and Wrongs: Towards Resurgence of a Treaty-Based Ethic of Relationality / Gina Starblanket -- 6. Thawing the Frozen Rights Theory: On Rejecting Interpretations of Reconciliation and Resurgence That Define Indigenous Peoples as Frozen in a Pre-colonial Past / Aimée Craft -- 7. Nêhiyaw Hunting Pedagogies and Revitalizing Indigenous Laws / Darcy Lindberg -- Part 3: Narrating Reconciliation and Resurgence. 8. Thinking through Resurgence Together: A Conversation between Sarah Hunt/Tlalilila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson / Sarah Hunt/Tlalilila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- 9. Truth-Telling amidst Reconciliation Discourses: How Stories Reshape Our Relationships / Jeff Corntassel -- 10. Political Action in the Time of Reconciliation / Corey Snelgrove and Matthew Wildcat -- Part 4: Reconciling Lands, Bodies, and Gender. 11. Body Land, Water, and Resurgence in Oaxaca / Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez -- 12. To Respect Indigenous Territorial Protocol: Hosting the Olympic Games on Indigenous Lands in Settler Colonial Canada / Christine O’Bonsawin -- 13. “Descendants of the Original Lords of the Soil”: Gender, Kinship, and an Indignant Model of Métis Nationhood / Daniel Voth -- 14. Red Utopia / Billy-Ray Belcourt.
- ISBN
- 9781487544607
- Accession Number
- P2023.10
- Call Number
- 07.2 St2i
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Brave like the buffalo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26206
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Allan, Melissa
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 Al5b
- 07.2 Al5b reference copy
- Author
- Allan, Melissa
- Responsibility
- Illustrated by Jadyn Fischer-McNab
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Subjects
- Children
- Buffalo
- Wildlife
- Indigenous
- Indigenous People
- Cree
- Abstract
- Brave Like the Buffalo is a children’s book with a message that will inspire all readers to face the storms in their life with the help of their support systems and with a brave mindset. Baby buffalo is surprised and scared when a storm on the prairies passes through. Mama buffalo puts on a brave face and demonstrates how to use courage and bravery to get through the literal and metaphorical storms we may face in life. Written by Melissa Allan and illustrated by Cree illustrator Jadyn Fischer-McNab, this story uses a powerful animal, the buffalo, as a symbolic message and connection to Indigenous ways of knowing and being that helps to create a wonderful narrative rich with Indigenous ties and a heartwarming message around facing adversity. Brave Like the Buffalo is intended for audiences aged 4-8, to be used educationally as a way to intertwine Indigenous ways of knowing and being through story. -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781771606448
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 07.2 Al5b
- 07.2 Al5b reference copy
- Location
- Reference copy located in Reading Room
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- Archives Library
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Blackfoot ways of knowing : the worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26211
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bastien, Betty
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Edition
- 9th printing
- Call Number
- 07.2 B29b
- Author
- Bastien, Betty
- Responsibility
- Ju¨rgen W. Kremer, editor ; Duane Mistaken Chief, language consultant.
- Edition
- 9th printing
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xx, 235 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Blackfoot
- Siksikaitsitapi
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Indigenous Language
- Abstract
- The worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of coming home to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty Bastien offers us a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experiencing the world. As a scholar and researcher, Bastien is also able to place Blackfoot tradition within the context of knowledge building among indigenous peoples generally, and within an historical context of precarious survival amid colonial displacement and cultural genocide. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Context -- Introduction -- Innahkootaitsinnika'topi -- History of the Blackfoot-speaking tribes -- Introductory remarks -- Iitotasimahpi Iimitaiks -- The era of the dog or the time of the ancestors (Pre-eighteenth century) -- Ao'ta'sao'si Ponokaomita -- the era of the horse (eighteeneth century to 1880) -- Ao'maopao'si -- from when we settled in one place (1880) to today -- Cultural destruction -- policies of ordinary genocide -- Tribal protocol and affirmative inquiry -- Niinohkanistssksinipi -- Speaking personally -- Traditional knowledge in academe -- Cultural affirmation -- Protocol of affirmative inquiry -- Affirmation of indigenous knowledge -- Kakyosin -- traditional knowledge -- Kiitomohpiipotoko -- ontological responsibilities -- Siksikaitsitapi ways of knowing -- epistemology -- Knowledge is coming to know Ihtsipaitapiiyo'pa -- Kakyosin/Mokaksin -- Indigenous learning -- Niisi'powahsinni-language -- Aipommotsspistsi -- transfers -- Kaaahsinnooniksi -- grandparents -- Conclusion: renewal of ancestral responsibilities as antidote to genocide -- Deconstructing the colonized mind -- Eurocentred and Niitsitapi identity -- Reflections and implications.
- ISBN
- 9781552381090
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 07.2 B29b
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- Archives Library
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