topic:"Indigenous Culture" found 3 records - Research Collections

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

Collection: Archives Library

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Me´tis rising : living our present through the power of our past

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Metis; Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Customs; Indigenous People; Identity

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

Collection: Archives Library

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Unpapered : writers consider Native American identity and cultural belonging

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

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

Collection: Archives Library

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