Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books

Book SynopsisThis text is about the indigenous Nyoongar people of the south-west of Western Australia and their perspectives on racism, which has had a devastating effect on their lives and culture since colonisation; and the multicultural policies that are effective in Australia. The author, and those Nyoongars interviewed, give valuable insight into Aboriginal lives. Their comments reveal how Nyoongar people survived the colonialism, cultural genocide, the horrendous state government policies under which they were forced to exist, the Stolen Generations of children and the loss of their land, identity, culture, and purpose in their lives. Presently, they are fighting for equality and for recognition as being part of the oldest living culture in the world, that of the Australian Aborigines.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction I. Nyoongar Culture before European Invasion II. Government Policies Regarding Nyoongars and Other Aborigines III. Concepts of Race and Racism IV. Racism: The Nyoongar Experience V. Post 1967 Referendum VI. Immigration VII. Multicultural Policies VIII. Nyoongar People and Multiculturalism (1) IX. Nyoongar People and Multiculturalism (2) X. Conclusion Bibliography of works cited Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisHuman Rights, Hegemony and Utopia in Latin America: Poverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo and Karla Hernández Mares explores the evolving relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights, within the context of cases in contemporary Mexico and Colombia, and their broader implications. The first three chapters provide an introduction to the book´s overall theoretical framework, which will then be applied to a series of more specific issues (migrant rights and the rights of indigenous peoples) and cases (primarily focused on contexts in Mexico and Colombia,), which are intended to be illustrative of broader trends in Latin America and globally.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia Poverty, social movements of the poor, human rights, and global justice Utopian visions Historical origins of utopian visions of human rights in contemporary Latin America Challenges to hegemonic paradigms of human rights “Paradigm wars” in Latin America Current landscapes of liberation in Latin America: the Latin American Spring, origins and limits Impact of constitutional and legal transformations Pervasive state violence and paramilitarism in Mexico 2. Poverty as a Crime against Humanity: International Poverty Law, Human Rights, and Global Justice, from Below Poverty as a crime against humanity Poverty as Violence Poverty as crime against humanity and the right to be human: ethical and philosophical frameworks as necessary but insufficient Poverty, human rights, global justice and the “epistemologies of the South” Relevant normative frameworks Freedom from want, freedom from poverty, the right not to be poor, ESC rights and global order: the “original understanding” International Poverty Law as a Framework for Convergence Mexico as case study Recent Developments in International Poverty Law The Guiding Principles, the “poverty of rights,” and “human rights from below”: poverty, self-determination, and violence Origins and evolution of the Guiding Principles The Guiding Principles in their historical context: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its origins 3. The Road to San Fernando: theoretical frameworks as to forced migration and forced displacement within the context of global justice and human rights Global rights and migrant rights Global justice, migration policy, and migrant rights Conceptual frameworks as to global justice Broader context of Guerrero case: Tlapa York Conceptual framework Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Behind: from Central America, through Mexico, to the indigenous communities of Mexico that migrate to New York 4. Peoples in Movement- International tribunals of conscience and struggles of migrants, refugees, and the displaced for human rights “from below” Case study Evolving articulations of migrant rights Emerging elements of a new right Peoples in Movement and Indigenous Peoples: potential “chains of equivalence” Conclusions as to ITC case study The Massacre The San Fernando cases before the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) Summary of PPT Jury's findings Responsibility of the US Government Responsibility of the Mexican Government 5. The counter-hegemonic origins and potential of human rights, the status of the rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America, and the World Bank as a case study Indigenous rights issues as a representative case Historical Dimensions Illustrative Policies Adopted by Other Multilateral Organizations Conclusion: Implications of Current World Bank Policies for Indigenous Peoples 6. Mexico, Colombia, state terror and paramilitarism That day when Mexican military troops fired 10 shots at a bus full of unarmed civilian passengers Uniform impunity Relevant trends in international law, international criminal law, and international human rights law State terror and gross, generalized violations of human rights Migration policy and migrant rights in the context of state terror 7. Las Abejas of Acteal: from massacre to resurrection Mexico´s Zapatistas as a point of departure: translating and decolonizing human rights Implications of the cases for broader issues as to indigenous and human rights Las Abejas of Acteal Poverty, Las Abejas, and the “theology of suffering” Teología india (indigenous theology) The origins of Las Abejas Exodus, liberation, forced displacement and forced migration The impact of counter-insurgency, militarization and paramilitarism The aftermath of the Massacre The search for justice as to the Acteal case Divisions within Las Abejas and the Zedillo case Impact of the massacre on Las Abejas 8. The right to community autonomy, justice, and security in Mexico and Colombia as a form of resistance Citizen´s Council for the Security of Humauxtitlán/Consejo Ciudadano por la Seguridad de Huamuxtitlán When the bells are tolled, the people cry out their demands Guerrero´s CRAC PC How did Guerrero´s CRAC Policia Comunitaria first emerge? Northern Cauca region in Colombia The centrality in Colombia of its indigenous movement and of the Cauca region and the Nasa The Guardia Indígena and utopian traces Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExploring Indigenous writing and literacies across five continents, this volume celebrates the resilience of Indigenous languages. This book makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the contemporary challenges facing Indigenous writing and literacies and argues that innovative and creative ideas can create a hopeful future for Indigenous writing. Contributions following the themes ‘Sketching the Context’, ‘Enhancing Writing’, and ‘Creating the Future’ are concluded with two reflective chapters evidencing the importance of volume’s thesis for the future of Indigenous writing and literacies. This volume encourages the development of research in this area, specifically inviting the international writing research community to engage with Indigenous peoples and support research on the nexus of Indigenous writing, literacies and education.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 Indigenous Writing and Literacies: Perspectives from Five Continents  Coppélie Cocq and Kirk P.H. Sullivan Part 1 Sketching the Context 2 “I’ve Admired Them for Doing so Well”: Where to Now for Indigenous Languages and Literacies?  Nathan John Albury 3 Indigenous Education: Affirming Indigenous Knowledges and Languages from a Turtle Island Indigenous Scholar’s Perspective: Pikiskēwinan (Let Us Voice)  Laara Fitznor 4 Literacy Proficiency among Students in Aotearoa-New Zealand: Why the Gap between Māori and Pākehā?  Dean Sutherland Part 2 Enhancing Writing 5 Indigenous Storytelling and Language Learning: Digital Media as Vehicle for Cultural Transmission and Language Acquisition  James Barrett and Coppélie Cocq 6 Enhancing Information Accessibility and Digital Literacy for Minorities Using Language Technology—the Example of Sámi and Other National Minority Languages in Sweden  Rickard Domeij, Ola Karlsson, Sjur Moshagen and Trond Trosterud Part 3 Creating the Future 7 Teachers, Textbooks, and Orthographic Choices in Quechua: Bilingual Intercultural Education in Peru and Ecuador  Nancy H. Hornberger and Nicholas Limerick 8 Researching Writing Development to Support Language Maintenance and Revitalization Design and Methodological Challenges  Hanna Outakoski, Eva Lindgren, Asbjørg Westum and Kirk P.H. Sullivan 9 Indigenous Literacy in South Africa: an Argument for Psycholinguistically Responsive Teaching  Mark de Vos Part 4 Reflections 10 A Coda and a Preface  Shelley Stagg Peterson 11 Education is Not Sufficient—Exploring Ways to Support and Research Indigenous Writing and Literacies  Kirk P.H. Sullivan, Virginia Langum and Coppélie Cocq Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the right of indigenous peoples to live, own and use their traditional territories, and analyses how international law addresses this. Through its meticulous examination of the interaction between international law and indigenous peoples’ land rights, the work explores several burning issues such as collective rights, self-determination, property rights, cultural rights and restitution of land. It delves into the notion of past violations and the role of international law in providing for remedies, reparation and restitution. It also argues that there is a new phase in the relationship between States, indigenous peoples and private actors, such as corporations, in the making of territorial agreements.Trade Review"Gilbert’s passion for his subject is palpable and illuminates every page, as do his zeal to expose international law’s complicity in indigenous peoples’ loss of their territories and tentative hope that international law might now provide some protection of indigenous peoples’ lands. The choice of topic is also to be applauded. There are few texts that examine indigenous peoples’ land rights in such depth.” Claire Charters, Associate Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand (in International and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ), volume 57, number 2, April 2008, pp. 491). "Gilbert’s gaze is firmly fixed on the future and the question how international law will reflect lex ferenda on indigenous land rights. His interpretation of international law must be seen in this light. He is looking beyond the current controversies in the rights discourse towards a more conciliatory phase in state-indigenous relations. International law undoubtedly has an important role to play in his vision, but its primary function is to facilitate dialogue rather than as a combative and adversarial mechanism. (..) Gilbert’s book is a tour de force on indigenous territoriality.” Stephen Allen, Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom (in International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 15 (2008) pp.117–131)Table of ContentsPreface About the author; Table of Cases; Table of Instruments; List of abbreviations; Introduction Territoriality: The Thread of Indigenous Cultures PART I: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AS VICTIMS: THEORIES OF DISPOSSESSION Chapter 1: Means of Acquisition A. The Conquest of Indigenous Territories 1. Justifications of Conquest: Commerce, Christianity and Civilization; 2. Discriminatory Rules of Conquest B. The Occupation of Indigenous Territories 1. The Post-Westphalian Order: Dichotomy Between Nations and Indigenous Communities; 2. Occupation of ‘Vacant’ Territories: Terra Nullius as a Legal Fiction; 3. Terra Nullius by Other Means: Contemporary Forms of Denial Chapter 2: Means of Extinguishment A. The Extinguishment of Indigenous Territorial Sovereignty by Colonial Treaties 1. A Process of Retrogression: From International Law to “Domestic Dependent Nations”; 2. The “Trail of Broken Treaties”: Contemporary Enforcement of Colonial Treaties B. Theories of Extinguishable Indigenous Land Rights 1. Discovery: A Theory of Extinguishable Right of Occupancy; 2. Contemporary Theories of Extinguishable Indigenous Title PART II: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AS SUBJECTS: THEORIES OF PROTECTION Chapter 3: Land Rights as Proprietary Rights A. Property Rights: Sources and Content 1. Weaknesses and Promises of the Property Rights Discourse; 2. Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Collective Land Ownership B. Effective Measures of Protection and Demarcation 1. Restriction on Land Transferability: The Danger of Paternalism; 2. Land Identification and Demarcation C. Reparation, Restitution and Compensation 1. The Right to Restitution; 2. Addressing Past Dispossession: The Role of Human Rights Chapter 4: Land Rights as Cultural Rights A. Land is Life: Land Rights as Subsistence Rights 1. Land Rights as a Means to a Collective Existence; 2. Right to Subsistence, Access to Livelihood and the Right to Life B. Land Rights as a Way of Life: Traditions and Spirituality 1. The Minority Rights Approach; 2. Religion, Spirituality and Land Rights C. Land Rights as Cultural Heritage: Towards a Right to Cultural Integrity 1. The Cultural Heritage Approach: The Danger of Compartmentalisation; 2. The Holistic Approach: Land Rights as Cultural Integrity PART III INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AS ACTORS: NEGOTIATING LAND RIGHTS Chapter 5: Self-Determination, Territoriality and Consent A. The Self-Determination and Land Rights Nexus 1. The Caveat of Self-Determination: States’ Territorial Integrity; 2. The Relational and Interpretative Values of Self-determination B. Self-determination, Natural Resources and Consent 1. Self-determination, Land Rights and Natural Resources; 2. Self-determination and Free, Prior and Informed Consent Chapter 6: Development, Globalisation and Land Rights A. Development, Participation and Land Rights 1. ‘Development Aggression’, the Right to Development & Land Rights; 2. Development, Effective Participation and Consent B. Ownership and Control of Natural Resources: From Subsistence to Benefit-Sharing 1. Ownership and Control of Natural Resources: A Right to Subsistence?; 2. Towards a Right to Benefit-Sharing? C. Nature Conservation, Exploitation of Natural Resources, and Private Actors 1. Nature Conservation, Tourism & Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights: towards co-management?; 2. Corporations, Human Rights Law and Land Rights Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIndigenous rights to heritage have only recently become the subject of academic scholarship. This collection aims to fill that gap by offering the fruits of a unique conference on this topic organised by the University of Lapland with the help of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The conference made clear that important information on Indigenous cultural heritage has remained unexplored or has not been adequately linked with specific actors (such as WIPO) or specific issues (such as free, prior and informed consent). Indigenous leaders explained the impact that disrespect of their cultural heritage has had on their identity, well-being and development. Experts in social sciences explained the intricacies of indigenous cultural heritage. Human rights scholars talked about the inability of current international law to fully address the injustices towards indigenous communities. Representatives of International organisations discussed new positive developments. This wealth of experiences, materials, ideas and knowledge is contained in this important volume.Trade Review"Written with passion by a group of experts in the field of indigenous rights, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the current developments concerning the realisation and enforcement of these rights. The focus on indigenous Sámi communities renders the reading of this book particularly engaging for a European audience. while the wider international and domestic contexts are undoubtedly interesting for all readers working in the spectrum of disciplines associated with indigenous rights, including international human rights law, cultural heritage law, land rights, environmental law, and procedural justice." - Andrzej Jakubowski, XXXVII Polish Yearbook of International Law, Warsaw, 2018, pp. 303-307 (DOI 10.7420/pyil2017p)Table of ContentsIntroduction International Instruments on Cultural Heritage: Tales of Fragmentation  Alexandra Xanthaki Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, and Cultural Heritage: Towards a Right to Cultural Integrity  Jérémie Gilbert Indigenous Cultural Heritage in the Implementation of UNESCO’s WorldHeritage Convention: Opportunities, Obstacles and Challenges  Stefan Disko Towards Sámi Self-determination over Their Cultural Heritage: The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Laponia in Northern Sweden  Leena Heinämäki, Thora Herrmann and Carina Green On Transfer of Sámi Traditional Knowledge: Scientification, Traditionalization, Secrecy, and Equality  Elina Helander-Renvall and Inkeri Markkula Indigenous Creativity and the Public Domain – Terra Nullius Revisited?  Mattias Åhrén An Ontological Politics of and for the Sámi Cultural Heritage – Reflections on Belonging to the Sámi Community and the Land  Sanna Valkonen, Jarno Valkonen and Veli-Pekka Lehtola Links between Lands, Territories, Environment and Cultural Heritage – The Recognition of Sámi Lands in Norway  Øyvind Ravna The Self-Governing of Inuit Cultural Heritage in Canada: The Path so Far  Violet Ford Cultural Heritage, Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property  Daphne Zografos Johnsson and Hai-Yuean Tualima Wider Use of Traditional Sámi Dress in Finland: Discrimination against the Sámi?  Piia Nuorgam The Cultural Heritage of South Africa’s Khoisan  Willa Boezak Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Own Legal Orders and Governance Systems in The International Human Rights Regime  Anne-Maria Magga Under the Umbrella: The Remedial Penumbra of Self-Determination, Retroactivity and the Restitution of Cultural Property to Indigenous Peoples  Shea Elizabeth Esterling Reparations for Wrongs against Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural Heritage  Federico Lenzerini Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLooking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up brings together research from a diverse group of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The work shared in this book is done by and with Indigenous peoples, from across Canada and around the world. Together, the collaborators’ voices resonate with urgency and insights towards resistance and resurgence. The various chapters address historical legacies, environmental concerns, community needs, wisdom teachings, legal issues, personal journeys, educational implications, and more. In these offerings, the contributors share the findings from their literature surveys, document analyses, community-based projects, self-studies, and work with knowledge keepers and elders. The scholarship draws on the teachings of the past, experiences of the present, and will undoubtedly inform research to come.Trade Review"[Looking Back and Living Forward] is like a collection of short stories told in straightforward prose that can be dipped into to find something of interest, perhaps in a discipline or topic that is entirely new to the reader. It will certainly open the reader’s eyes to the diversity and depth of research being carried out in Indigenous studies and can be recommended to anyone wishing to expand their understanding and knowledge." -- Jim Reynolds, LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsForeword xiii Dwayne Donald Acknowledgements xv Introduction xvii Jennifer Markides Part 1: Defending the Sacred: Land and Relationships 1. The Cold War, the Nuclear Arctic, and Inuit Resistance 3 Warren Bernauer 2. Working Together: Recommendations for Indigenous and Archaeological Custodianship of Past in Canada 13 April Chabot 3. Indigenous Knowledge on Nguni Cattle Uses: Breed of the Past for the Future 25 Saymore Petros Ndou and Michael Chimonyo 4. Early Indigenous North American Cartography as Performance Texts 35 Waylon Lenk 5. The Gradual Rise of Manitoba’s Northern Hydro-Electrical Generation Project 45 Victoria Grima 6. First Nations, Municipalities, and Urban Reserves: Shifting Intergovernmental Power Balance in Urban Settings? 55 Charlotte Bezamat-Mantes 7. Indigenous Food Sovereignty Is a Public Health Priority 63 Carly Welham Part 2: Sharing Intergenerational Teachings: Language and Stories 8. Using Language Nests to Promote the Intergenerational Transmission of Taltan 73 Kasha Julie A. Morris (Tahltan Nation) 9. Bibooniiwininii: Miigaazoo-Dibaajimowin – Winter Spirit: Fight Story 81 Isaac Murdoch (Narrator) and Jason Bone (Editor) 10. In Defense of the Oral Tradition: The Embodiment of Indigenous Literature and the Storytelling Styles of Dovie Thomason and Louis Bird 91 Michelle Lietz 11. An Elaborate Educational Endeavour: The Writing of Basil H. Johnston 97 Paul M. R. Murphy 12. Korean Indigenous Epistemologies with Notes on the Corresponding Epistemologies of Indigenous Scholarship 105 Jusung Kim 13. Channelling Indigenous Knowledge through Digital Transmission: The Opportunities and Limitations of Indigenous Computer Games 115 Melanie Belmore and Melanie Braith 14. Knowledge and Practices in Conflict: Indigenous Voice and Oral Traditions in the Legal System 123 Monica Morales-Good Part 3: Re-Dressing Colonial Legacies: Counter-Narratives of Resistance 15. Self-Determination Undermined: Education and Self-government 135 Laura Forsythe 16. Daniels v. Canada: The Supreme Court’s Racialized Understanding of the Métis and Section 91(24) 145 Karine Martel 17. Canadian Cyber Stories on Indigenous Topics and White Fragility: Why Is the Online Comment Section So Volatile and Divisive? 155 Belinda Nicholson 18. How Imperial Images Demonize Indigenous Spiritualities 163 Timothy Maton 19. An ‘Indian’ Industry: Tourism and the Exploitation of Indigenous Cultures in the Canadian West 177 Miriam Martens 20. Celebrating Canada 150 by Exploiting Coast Salish Culture 187 Irwin Oostindie 21. Reclaiming Indigenous Schooling Process against Colonization 197 Eduardo Vergolino 22. Surveying Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions on the Indigenous Course Requirement 205 Amanda Appasamy, Cassandra Szabo, and Jordan Tabobondung Part 4: Communities of Healing and Strength: Redirection to Resurgence 23. Moccasin Making for Community Development: In York Factory First Nation 219 Charlene Moore 24. Elders and Indigenous Healing in the Correctional Service of Canada: A Story of Relational Dissonance, Sacred Doughnuts, and Drive-Thru Expectations 231 Robin Quantick 25. Indigenous Voices for Well-Being in Northern Manitoba: An Exploratory Study 245 Miriam Perry 26. Scaling Deep: Arts Based Research Practices 255 Kara Passey 27. Drawing Back the Curtain: Community Engagement Prior to Basic Science Research Improves Research Questions and Assists in Framing Study Outcomes 263 Monika M. Kowatsch, Courtney Bell, Margaret Ormond, and Keith R. Fowke 28. Research Ethics Review, Research Participants, and the Researcher in-between: When REB Directives Clash with Participant Socio-Relational Cosmologies 273 Marion J. Kiprop 29. An Act of Anishinaabe Resistance 283 Patricia Siniikwe Pajunen 30. Reconciling an Ethical Framework for Living Well in the World of Research 291 Jennifer Markides

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Book SynopsisLooking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up brings together research from a diverse group of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The work shared in this book is done by and with Indigenous peoples, from across Canada and around the world. Together, the collaborators’ voices resonate with urgency and insights towards resistance and resurgence. The various chapters address historical legacies, environmental concerns, community needs, wisdom teachings, legal issues, personal journeys, educational implications, and more. In these offerings, the contributors share the findings from their literature surveys, document analyses, community-based projects, self-studies, and work with knowledge keepers and elders. The scholarship draws on the teachings of the past, experiences of the present, and will undoubtedly inform research to come.Table of ContentsForeword xiii Dwayne Donald Acknowledgements xv Introduction xvii Jennifer Markides Part 1: Defending the Sacred: Land and Relationships 1. The Cold War, the Nuclear Arctic, and Inuit Resistance 3 Warren Bernauer 2. Working Together: Recommendations for Indigenous and Archaeological Custodianship of Past in Canada 13 April Chabot 3. Indigenous Knowledge on Nguni Cattle Uses: Breed of the Past for the Future 25 Saymore Petros Ndou and Michael Chimonyo 4. Early Indigenous North American Cartography as Performance Texts 35 Waylon Lenk 5. The Gradual Rise of Manitoba’s Northern Hydro-Electrical Generation Project 45 Victoria Grima 6. First Nations, Municipalities, and Urban Reserves: Shifting Intergovernmental Power Balance in Urban Settings? 55 Charlotte Bezamat-Mantes 7. Indigenous Food Sovereignty Is a Public Health Priority 63 Carly Welham Part 2: Sharing Intergenerational Teachings: Language and Stories 8. Using Language Nests to Promote the Intergenerational Transmission of Taltan 73 Kasha Julie A. Morris (Tahltan Nation) 9. Bibooniiwininii: Miigaazoo-Dibaajimowin – Winter Spirit: Fight Story 81 Isaac Murdoch (Narrator) and Jason Bone (Editor) 10. In Defense of the Oral Tradition: The Embodiment of Indigenous Literature and the Storytelling Styles of Dovie Thomason and Louis Bird 91 Michelle Lietz 11. An Elaborate Educational Endeavour: The Writing of Basil H. Johnston 97 Paul M. R. Murphy 12. Korean Indigenous Epistemologies with Notes on the Corresponding Epistemologies of Indigenous Scholarship 105 Jusung Kim 13. Channelling Indigenous Knowledge through Digital Transmission: The Opportunities and Limitations of Indigenous Computer Games 115 Melanie Belmore and Melanie Braith 14. Knowledge and Practices in Conflict: Indigenous Voice and Oral Traditions in the Legal System 123 Monica Morales-Good Part 3: Re-Dressing Colonial Legacies: Counter-Narratives of Resistance 15. Self-Determination Undermined: Education and Self-government 135 Laura Forsythe 16. Daniels v. Canada: The Supreme Court’s Racialized Understanding of the Métis and Section 91(24) 145 Karine Martel 17. Canadian Cyber Stories on Indigenous Topics and White Fragility: Why Is the Online Comment Section So Volatile and Divisive? 155 Belinda Nicholson 18. How Imperial Images Demonize Indigenous Spiritualities 163 Timothy Maton 19. An ‘Indian’ Industry: Tourism and the Exploitation of Indigenous Cultures in the Canadian West 177 Miriam Martens 20. Celebrating Canada 150 by Exploiting Coast Salish Culture 187 Irwin Oostindie 21. Reclaiming Indigenous Schooling Process against Colonization 197 Eduardo Vergolino 22. Surveying Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions on the Indigenous Course Requirement 205 Amanda Appasamy, Cassandra Szabo, and Jordan Tabobondung Part 4: Communities of Healing and Strength: Redirection to Resurgence 23. Moccasin Making for Community Development: In York Factory First Nation 219 Charlene Moore 24. Elders and Indigenous Healing in the Correctional Service of Canada: A Story of Relational Dissonance, Sacred Doughnuts, and Drive-Thru Expectations 231 Robin Quantick 25. Indigenous Voices for Well-Being in Northern Manitoba: An Exploratory Study 245 Miriam Perry 26. Scaling Deep: Arts Based Research Practices 255 Kara Passey 27. Drawing Back the Curtain: Community Engagement Prior to Basic Science Research Improves Research Questions and Assists in Framing Study Outcomes 263 Monika M. Kowatsch, Courtney Bell, Margaret Ormond, and Keith R. Fowke 28. Research Ethics Review, Research Participants, and the Researcher in-between: When REB Directives Clash with Participant Socio-Relational Cosmologies 273 Marion J. Kiprop 29. An Act of Anishinaabe Resistance 283 Patricia Siniikwe Pajunen 30. Reconciling an Ethical Framework for Living Well in the World of Research 291 Jennifer Markides

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Book SynopsisWorship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations: (Re)imagining Identity in the Spirit provides an ethnographic account of three Australian Pentecostal congregations with Aboriginal senior leadership. Within this Pentecostalism, Dreaming realities and identities must be brought together with the Christian gospel. Yet current political and economic relationships with the Australian state complicate the possibilities of interactions between culture and Spirit. The result is a matrix or network of these churches stretching across Australia, with Black Australian Pentecostals resisting and accommodating the state through the construction of new and ancient identities. This work occurs most notably in context of the worship ritual, which functions through ritual interaction chains to energise the various social engagement programs these congregations sustain.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Part 1 Prelude: A Short Political History of Australia Introduction to the Research  1 Religion-as-Practiced  2 Introduction to Australian National Identit(ies) Today  3 Malcolm Calley and the Bundjalung Pentecostals  4 Australian Pentecostal Religiosity  5 Disciplinary Location  6 Overview of the Research 1 Learning to Yarn  1.1 Researching Colonized Peoples  1.2 My Location: Stumbling Towards Songlines  1.3 Agency and Freedom: The Right to Choose Christianity  1.4 Participation as a Value of International Development Research  1.5 “Yarning”  1.6 The Affective Encounter in Yarning  1.7 Concluding the Yarns 2 A “Corroboree” of Literature  2.1 Dialoguing with the Anthropological Resources  2.2 Dialoguing with Development Resources  2.3 Dialoguing with Theological Resources  2.4 The Intersections: Pentecostalism, Poverty, and Development  2.5 Concluding The Dancing Circle 3 Methodology  3.1 Theoretical Foundations: IRCT  3.2 Theoretical Foundations: An Appreciative Lens  3.3 The Research Questions and Propositions/Hypothesis  3.4 Method: Ethnographic Research  3.5 Method: Interviews  3.6 Data Analysis: Interviews  3.7 Research Assumptions and Delimiters  3.8 Conclusions Part 2: Research Findings 4 The Aboriginal Pentecostal Network  4.1 The Significance of Oral History  4.2 Denominational Affiliation  4.3 The Three Congregations and Their Leaders  4.4 Finding 1: The Urban Australian Pentecostal Network  4.5 IRCT and Historical Themes  4.6 Conclusions 5 “There’s a Christian Welcome here”: Worship Practices  5.1 Analyzing a Congregation as an Interaction Ritual Chain  5.2 Participant Attitudes Towards Self Determination and Culture  5.3 Finding 2: Welcome or Inclusion, and Yarning  5.4 IRCT and Cultural Strategies in Worship Practice  5.5 Ganggalah Cultural Strategy  5.6 POTS Cultural Strategy  5.7 Eagle Rock Cultural Strategy  5.8 Conclusions on Worship Practices 6 Narrating the Self and the Collective  6.1 Finding 3a: Affective Spirit Encounter Transforms the Self  6.2 Finding 3b: Finding Symbols from Group Narrative  6.3 IRCT and Forming Narrative Theologies  6.4 Conclusions 7 Individual Well-being and Worship  7.1 Finding 4: Worship Improves Self-Reported Well-being  7.2 IRCT and Individual Well-being  7.3 Conclusions regarding Individual Outcomes 8 Social Engagement Practices  8.1 Finding 5: Social Engagement Programs  8.2 Participant Attitudes towards Evangelism and Social Justice  8.3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Connections  8.4 Finding 6: Missional Strategies for Social Engagement Programs  8.5 IRCT and Social Engagement  8.6 Conclusions on Social Engagement Practices 9 Linking Worship and Social Engagement  9.1 Linking Worship and Social Engagement Practices  9.2 Congregations as Interaction Ritual Chains  9.3 Conclusions about Social Engagement Part 3 10 Reflecting on Interaction Ritual Chain Theory  10.1 Reflecting upon IRCT  10.2 Organizational Leaders as Symbols  10.3 Congregations as Interaction Ritual Chains  10.4 Limitations on the Research  10.5 Conclusion 11 Final Conclusions  11.1 Summary of the Research and Findings  11.2 Conclusions  11.3 Contributions of this Study  11.4 Recommendations to Researchers  11.5 Concluding the Research Appendix A Interview Questions Appendix B Key Church Leader Questions Appendix C Experience of the Spirit Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art sheds light on Indigenous justice perspectives in Indigenous literature and art. Decolonizing education, culture, and society is the revolutionary pulse of this book aimed at educational reform and comprehensive change. Select works of published literature and exhibited art are interpreted in the critical discourse presented. Indigeneity as a lens is used to deconstruct education, accountability, and policy in Canada and globally. A new hypothesis is advanced about colonization and Indigenous voicelessness, helplessness, and genocidal victimhood as unchanging conditions of humanity. Activist pushback is demonstrated in the rise of Indigenous sources originating in global Canada. While colonization dehumanizes Canadian Indigenous peoples, a global movement has erupted, changing pockets of curriculum, teaching, and research. Through agency and solidarity in public life and, gradually, education, Indigenous justice is a mounting paradigmatic force. Indigenous voices speak about colonialism as a crisis of humanity that provokes truth-telling and protest. Glimpses of Indigenous futurity offer new possibilities for decolonizing our globally connected lives. Actionable steps include educating for a just world and integrating Indigenous justice in other advocacy theories. “Compelling, interesting, important, and original. I was impressed with Carol Mullen’s knowledge as well as how she wove together this knowledge with both the literature and personal experience throughout this beautifully and soulfully written text. I appreciate how she illuminated spaces and people whose work is often relegated to dark corners.” – Pamela J. Konkol, Professor of Foundations, Social Policy, and Research at Concordia University Chicago See inside the book.Trade Review“Compelling, interesting, important, and original. I was impressed with Carol Mullen’s knowledge as well as how she wove together this knowledge with both the literature and personal experience throughout this beautifully and soulfully written text. I appreciate how the author illuminated spaces and people whose work is often relegated to dark corners.” – Pamela J. Konkol, Professor of Foundations, Social Policy, and Research at Concordia University Chicago "I believe that this book contributes much needed knowledge to the field, with earnest attention on Indigenous education. It is the first writing I have seen on this important topic that integrates Indigenous art and literature as tools for protest and meaningful change. Without a doubt, Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art breaks new ground for education in its content, frameworks, and presentation". Christopher H. Tienken, in AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice, 18 (3), Fall 2021.Table of ContentsTribute to Bernardo P. Gallegos Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction About the Author 1 Frames: Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art  1 Frames Introduced  2 Specialized Terms Defined  3 Methods and Methodological Frames  4 Selection Criteria  5 Canadian Indigenous Art/ifacts  6 Viewpoints 2 Tensions: Truth-Telling about Injustice in Canada  1 Policy and Reform: Trend #1  2 Testing and Education: Trend #2  3 Diversity and Immigration: Trend #3  4 Health and Environment: Trend #4  5 Perspectives 3 Binaries: Colonizing Forces and Counterforces  1 Conceptual Framework  2 Thematic Binary Discussion  3 Viewpoints 4 Exhibits: Water and Land Politics in Aboriginal Art/ifacts  1 Erasure.Exposure Narrative Friction  2 Messages to Ponder  3 Viewpoints 5 Interventions: Pedagogies for Decolonizing Education  1 Interventions from Six Domains  2 Ten Literature-Based Tenets  3 Vigilance Practiced and in Practice  4 Perspectives 6 Futurity: Glimpses of Indigenous and Settler Struggle  1 Indigenous and Settler Futurity  2 Visions of Indigenous Education  3 Learning from the Past  4 In Light of Indigenous Justice  5 Perspectives Epilogue  1 International Linkages of Colonialism  2 Recommendations from the Literature  3 Eyes Wide Open Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art sheds light on Indigenous justice perspectives in Indigenous literature and art. Decolonizing education, culture, and society is the revolutionary pulse of this book aimed at educational reform and comprehensive change. Select works of published literature and exhibited art are interpreted in the critical discourse presented. Indigeneity as a lens is used to deconstruct education, accountability, and policy in Canada and globally. A new hypothesis is advanced about colonization and Indigenous voicelessness, helplessness, and genocidal victimhood as unchanging conditions of humanity. Activist pushback is demonstrated in the rise of Indigenous sources originating in global Canada. While colonization dehumanizes Canadian Indigenous peoples, a global movement has erupted, changing pockets of curriculum, teaching, and research. Through agency and solidarity in public life and, gradually, education, Indigenous justice is a mounting paradigmatic force. Indigenous voices speak about colonialism as a crisis of humanity that provokes truth-telling and protest. Glimpses of Indigenous futurity offer new possibilities for decolonizing our globally connected lives. Actionable steps include educating for a just world and integrating Indigenous justice in other advocacy theories. “Compelling, interesting, important, and original. I was impressed with Carol Mullen’s knowledge as well as how she wove together this knowledge with both the literature and personal experience throughout this beautifully and soulfully written text. I appreciate how she illuminated spaces and people whose work is often relegated to dark corners.” – Pamela J. Konkol, Professor of Foundations, Social Policy, and Research at Concordia University Chicago See inside the book.Trade Review“Compelling, interesting, important, and original. I was impressed with Carol Mullen’s knowledge as well as how she wove together this knowledge with both the literature and personal experience throughout this beautifully and soulfully written text. I appreciate how the author illuminated spaces and people whose work is often relegated to dark corners.” – Pamela J. Konkol, Professor of Foundations, Social Policy, and Research at Concordia University Chicago "I believe that this book contributes much needed knowledge to the field, with earnest attention on Indigenous education. It is the first writing I have seen on this important topic that integrates Indigenous art and literature as tools for protest and meaningful change. Without a doubt, Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art breaks new ground for education in its content, frameworks, and presentation". Christopher H. Tienken, in AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice, 18 (3), Fall 2021.Table of ContentsTribute to Bernardo P. Gallegos Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction About the Author 1 Frames: Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art  1 Frames Introduced  2 Specialized Terms Defined  3 Methods and Methodological Frames  4 Selection Criteria  5 Canadian Indigenous Art/ifacts  6 Viewpoints 2 Tensions: Truth-Telling about Injustice in Canada  1 Policy and Reform: Trend #1  2 Testing and Education: Trend #2  3 Diversity and Immigration: Trend #3  4 Health and Environment: Trend #4  5 Perspectives 3 Binaries: Colonizing Forces and Counterforces  1 Conceptual Framework  2 Thematic Binary Discussion  3 Viewpoints 4 Exhibits: Water and Land Politics in Aboriginal Art/ifacts  1 Erasure.Exposure Narrative Friction  2 Messages to Ponder  3 Viewpoints 5 Interventions: Pedagogies for Decolonizing Education  1 Interventions from Six Domains  2 Ten Literature-Based Tenets  3 Vigilance Practiced and in Practice  4 Perspectives 6 Futurity: Glimpses of Indigenous and Settler Struggle  1 Indigenous and Settler Futurity  2 Visions of Indigenous Education  3 Learning from the Past  4 In Light of Indigenous Justice  5 Perspectives Epilogue  1 International Linkages of Colonialism  2 Recommendations from the Literature  3 Eyes Wide Open Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the conceptualization and practice of Indigenous research methodologies especially in Sámi and North European academic contexts. It examines the meaning of Sámi research and research methodologies, practical levels of doing Indigenous research today in different contexts, as well as global debates in Indigenous research. The contributors present place-specific and relational Sámi research approaches as well as reciprocal methodological choices in Indigenous research in North-South relationships. This edited volume is a result of a research collaboration in four countries where Sámi people live. By taking the readers to diverse local discussions, the collection emphasizes communal responsibility and care as a key in doing Indigenous research. Contributors are: Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Pigga Keskitalo, Ilona Kivinen, Britt Kramvig, Petter Morottaja, Eljas Niskanen, Torjer Olsen, Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Hanna Outakoski, Attila Paksi, Jelena Porsanger, Aili Pyhälä, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti, Torkel Rasmussen, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari, Trond Trosterud and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction  Pigga Keskitalo, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Torjer Olsen 1 Contemporary Indigenous Research within Sámi and Global Indigenous Studies Contexts  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Torjer Olsen and Pigga Keskitalo 2 Sámi dutkama máttut: The Forerunners of Sámi Methodological Thinking  Jelena Porsanger and Irja Seurujärvi-Kari 3 Káfestallamin Cáfe Talks of the Indigenous Research Paradigm in Sámi Research  Pigga Keskitalo, Torkel Rasmussen, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti and Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä 4 Developing Literacy Research in Sápmi  Hanna Outakoski 5 Decolonized Research-Storying: Bringing Indigenous Ontologies and Care into the Practices of Research Writing  Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Britt Kramvig and Aili Pyhälä 6 ‘Shared Remembering’ as a Relational Indigenous Method in Conceptualization of Sámi Women’s Leadership  Jelena Porsanger, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari and Ragnhild Lydia Nystad 7 Methodological Implications of the Project Čyeti čälled anarâškielân, ‘One Hundred Writers for Aanaar Saami’: Strengthening the Literacy of an Indigenous Language Community  Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Trond Trosterud, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Petter Morottaja and Eljas Niskanen 8 Reflections on Power Relations and Reciprocity in the Field While Conducting Research with Indigenous Peoples  Attila Paksi and Ilona Kivinen 9 Kimapury Reflections: Values and Research Agendas in Amazonian Indigenous Research Relations  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Epilogue  Torjer Olsen, Pigga Keskitalo and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the conceptualization and practice of Indigenous research methodologies especially in Sámi and North European academic contexts. It examines the meaning of Sámi research and research methodologies, practical levels of doing Indigenous research today in different contexts, as well as global debates in Indigenous research. The contributors present place-specific and relational Sámi research approaches as well as reciprocal methodological choices in Indigenous research in North-South relationships. This edited volume is a result of a research collaboration in four countries where Sámi people live. By taking the readers to diverse local discussions, the collection emphasizes communal responsibility and care as a key in doing Indigenous research. Contributors are: Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Pigga Keskitalo, Ilona Kivinen, Britt Kramvig, Petter Morottaja, Eljas Niskanen, Torjer Olsen, Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Hanna Outakoski, Attila Paksi, Jelena Porsanger, Aili Pyhälä, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti, Torkel Rasmussen, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari, Trond Trosterud and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction  Pigga Keskitalo, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Torjer Olsen 1 Contemporary Indigenous Research within Sámi and Global Indigenous Studies Contexts  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Torjer Olsen and Pigga Keskitalo 2 Sámi dutkama máttut: The Forerunners of Sámi Methodological Thinking  Jelena Porsanger and Irja Seurujärvi-Kari 3 Káfestallamin Cáfe Talks of the Indigenous Research Paradigm in Sámi Research  Pigga Keskitalo, Torkel Rasmussen, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti and Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä 4 Developing Literacy Research in Sápmi  Hanna Outakoski 5 Decolonized Research-Storying: Bringing Indigenous Ontologies and Care into the Practices of Research Writing  Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Britt Kramvig and Aili Pyhälä 6 ‘Shared Remembering’ as a Relational Indigenous Method in Conceptualization of Sámi Women’s Leadership  Jelena Porsanger, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari and Ragnhild Lydia Nystad 7 Methodological Implications of the Project Čyeti čälled anarâškielân, ‘One Hundred Writers for Aanaar Saami’: Strengthening the Literacy of an Indigenous Language Community  Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Trond Trosterud, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Petter Morottaja and Eljas Niskanen 8 Reflections on Power Relations and Reciprocity in the Field While Conducting Research with Indigenous Peoples  Attila Paksi and Ilona Kivinen 9 Kimapury Reflections: Values and Research Agendas in Amazonian Indigenous Research Relations  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Epilogue  Torjer Olsen, Pigga Keskitalo and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Index

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Book SynopsisThanks to Renzo Duin's annotated translation, the voice of Lodewijk Schmidt—an Afrodiasporic Saramaka Maroon from Suriname—is finally available for Anglophone audiences worldwide. More than anything else, Schmidt's journals constitute meticulous ethnographic accounts telling the tragic story of the Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Guiana Highlands (northern Brazil and southern French Guiana and Suriname). Schmidt's is a story that takes account of the pathological mechanisms of colonialism in which Indigenous Peoples and African Diaspora communities—both victims of colonialism—vilify each other, falling privy to the divide-and-conquer mentality mechanisms of colonialism. Moreover, silenced in the original 1942 publication, Schmidt was sent on a covert mission to determine if the Nazis had established bases and airfields at the southern border of Suriname. Schmidt described the precariousness of the Amazonian forest and the Indigenous Peoples and African Diasporic people who lived and continue to live there, drawing on language that foreshadows our current anthropic and ecological concerns. Duin's profound knowledge of the history, geography, and ecology of the region contextualizes Schmidt's accounts in a new introduction and in his analysis and afterthought forces us to take account of the catastrophe that is deforestation and ethnocide of the Indigenous Peoples of Amazonian Guiana. Lodewijk J. Schmidt (1898-1992) Saramaka from Gansee (modern Saamaka spelling: Ganzë; pronounced Ganzè), upper Suriname river, Suriname, South America. The Saramaka are one of the largest African Diaspora communities in Suriname. He was educated by the Herrnhutters in the school of the Moravian Church, and during the mid-twentieth century he took part in several momentous expeditions, such as the 1935-38 Border Expedition between Suriname and Brazil. The present work is the annotated translation of his accounts of a tri-partite expedition conducted between 1940 and 1942 at and across the southern border of Suriname. Renzo S. Duin (1974) obtained a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida (USA). Between 1996 and 2019 he conducted over 40 months of fieldwork in the Guianas (Suriname, French Guiana, and Guyana). His research and publications cover a broad range of topics: socio-political landscape studies; material culture; intangible heritage; social memory; oral history; identity; ethno-astronomy; historical ecology; decolonization; and the intertwining nature of these topics, and as such offers an alternative to the twentieth century model of tropical forest cultures in Amazonia.Table of Contents  List of Figures and Tables   About the Translator and Editor of the Present Volume   Book Summary Part 1: Introduction and Context  1 Definitions and Aspirations  2 The Significance of Lodewijk Schmidt’s Accounts to Anthropology Today  3 The Politics of Authorship and Circumstances of First Publication  4 Mapping the Unknown (or: An Audacious Colonial Endeavor)  5 Notes on the Translation   1 A Short Note on Indigenous Peoples and African Diaspora Communities   2 Some Surinamese Socio-political Concepts   3 Some Typical Surinamese Terms   4 A Short Note on Geographic Names Part 2: Ethnographic Accounts from Three Voyages in Amazonian Guiana  6 Introduction to the Original Publication  7 Notes on Wayana and Trio Demographics and Settlement Names  8 Account of the First Expedition  9 Account of the Second Expedition  10 Account of the Third Expedition Part 3: The People, and other Important Things  11 General Comments  12 Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the List of Names of Inhabitants  13 The Inhabitants of the Wayana Villages on the Litani and Mapahoni Recorded by Lodewijk Schmidt between November 1940 and January 1941  14 The Inhabitants of the Trio and Wayana Villages in South Suriname and in North Brazil Recorded Between November 1940 and March 1942  15 The Inhabitants of the Wayana Villages on the Jari and Paru de l’Este Recorded Between November 1940 and January 1941  16 Afterthought   Bibliography   Index

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Book SynopsisThe Khoisan of the Cape are widely considered virtually extinct as a distinct collective following their decimation, dispossession and assimilation into the mixed-race group ‘coloured’ during colonialism and apartheid. However, since the democratic transition of 1994, increasing numbers of ‘Khoisan revivalists’ are rejecting their coloured identity and engaging in activism as indigenous people. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Cape Town, this book takes an unprecedented bottom-up approach. Centring emic perspectives, it scrutinizes Khoisan revivalism’s origins and explores the diverse ways Khoisan revivalists engage with the past to articulate a sense of indigeneity and stake political claims.Trade Review[...] With the acts of identity reclamation—specifically Khoisan ethnic self-assertion—reverberating in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, this monograph is timely and pertinent. It will appeal to academics and students of history, heritage studies, ethnicity and/or subaltern studies, and postcolonial theory. Khoisan Conscious is a particularly invaluable resource for San studies and explorations of the notion of indigeneity. It will be of interest to researchers working in the space of race and ethnic identification, memory and memorialization, and emic historicization. Connie Rapoo, University of Botswana, in Research Africa Reviews Vol. 7 No. 1, April 2023, pp. 53-55Table of ContentsForeword Preface List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Defining a Phenomenon, Navigating a Field Studying Khoisan Revivalism through Reflexive Ethnography  1.1 Ethnography and the Interpretation of Emic Perspectives  1.2 Gathering Data on an Elusive Phenomenon: Heterogeneous Interlocutors, Reflexive Methods, and Eclectic Sources  1.2.1 Sources  1.2.2 Methods and Wider Implications of the Research part 1 Lost in Categorization? The Khoisan Extinction Discourse, and the Intellectual Roots and Aspirations of Khoisan Revivalism 2 (Re)Thinking the ‘Khoisan’ The Fate of a People, the Career of a Concept  2.1 Dispossession, Assimilation, and the ‘vanishing native’: A Brief Overview of Khoisan History  2.1.1 Dutch Colonialism Settles on South African Shores: Frontier Settlers and Expendable Natives (1652–1806)  2.1.2 British Colonialism, Assimilation, and Salvage Ethnography (1795–1910)  2.1.3 Union, Apartheid, and Coloured Citizens (1910–1970s)  2.2 Black Consciousness, Khoisan Revisionist Historiography, and the Origins of Khoisan Revivalism (1970s–1997)  2.2.1 Black Consciousness and the Reinvention of Coloured Identity in the Anti-apartheid Struggle  2.2.2 Henry Bredekamp and Khoisan revisionistRevisionist Historiography  2.2.3 Towards a New Khoisan Agenda in the Post-apartheid Era 3 The Political Accommodation and Diversification of Post-apartheid Khoisan Revivalism  3.1 Joseph Little, Traditional Leadership, and the Politicization of Khoisan identityIdentity (1997–2012)  3.1.1 From the Cape Cultural Heritage Development Council to the National Khoisan Council: Traditional Leadership and Indigenous Rights on the Agenda  3.1.2 Khoisan politicsPolitics in the Aftermath of the 2001 National Khoisan Consultative Conference: From Peak to Stagnation  3.2 Khoisan Revivalism in the 2010s: Towards a Broad-Based Identity Movement?  3.2.1 A New Cohort of Khoisan Revivalists  3.2.2 Land Reform, the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act, and the Advent of a Broad-Based Identity Movement part 2 Ethnographic Encounters with Khoisan Revivalism in Cape Town 4 The Khoisan Identity Discourse (i) Reclaiming History and Remedying the ‘identity crisis’  4.1 ‘Khoisan forever, Coloured never’: Khoisan Identity as the Answer to the Identity Crisis  4.1.1 Identities Lost and Found: Khoisan Identity as a Spiritual Experience  4.1.2 An Eye-Opening Experience: Diagnosing and Healing the Identity Crisis  4.2 Reclaiming Khoisan History: Coloured Indigeneity and Indigenous Colouredness  4.2.1 Khoisan Revivalist Perspectives on the Past: Exposing Historical Continuity  4.2.2 Rewriting the Khoisan Past  4.2.3 Recuperating Khoisan Heroes: The Case of Krotoa 5 The Khoisan Identity Discourse (ii) Entitlement, Land Claims, and Traditional Leadership  5.1 Empowerment, Discursive Land Claims, and the Boundaries of Khoisan Indigeneity  5.2 On Khoisan Revivalist Traditional Leadership 6 Reviving Khoisan Culture Between Continuity and Change  6.1 ‘Like stepping into a time machine’  6.1.1 Plants, Rituals, and Inspiration from the North  6.1.2 Tourism, Mending the ‘broken string’, and Reviving Khoekhoegowab  6.2 21st Century Interpretations of Khoisan Culture: Hip-hop, Jazz, and Fashion part 3 Theoretical Perspectives on Khoisan Revivalism 7 Khoisan Revivalism and the Therapeutics of Emic History  7.1 Therapeutic History, Heritage, and the Case of Khoisan Revivalism  7.2 Subverting ‘repressive authenticity’? The Khoisan Revivalist Guide to Reclaiming History and Authenticity  7.2.1 Authenticity after Colonialism: Repressive Authenticity and the Khoisan Extinction Discourse  7.2.2 ‘Subversive authenticity’: Repressive Authenticity Turned Inside Out?  7.3 Closing Reflections on the Therapeutics of Emic History  Conclusion Khoisan Consciousness and Its Discontents in a Post-transitional South Africa Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOnce the Maroons escaped from slavery and established their communities in the remote interior of Suriname, attention shifted from military threat to internal danger. As they faced these dangers in an unknown rainforest, they sought refuge in prophetic movements directed by charismatic religious leaders. This book charts the history of Okanisi religious movements from their escape to the present day. It is based on sixty years of fieldwork by the late Bonno Thoden van Velzen and Ineke van Wetering, archival research and oral histories. Prophets of Doom is a tribute to Okanisi society and reflects decades of research and dedication.Table of ContentsForeword: Two anthropologists at Work: An Insider’s Perspective Acknowledgements Glossary List of Maps and Illustrations Introduction 1 The Construction of History in Maroon Society 2 The Lost Homeland and the Years of Suffering 3 Loweten: The Great Trek 4 In a Forest Sanctuary 5 The Fight for Supremacy and the Exploration of the Hinterland 6 Peace 7 Dangerous Newcomers 8 A War Like No Other 9 Great Events 10 Saka in Command of the Tribal Obiya 11 New Movements 12 At the Oracle of Gaan Tata 13 A Fury Unleashed 14 The Jungle Commando’s Obiya 15 Demons 16 Hard Facts and the Stories Archival Sources and References Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book that comprehensively examines Indigenous filmmaking in North America, as it analyzes in detail a variety of representative films by Canadian and US-American Indigenous filmmakers: two films that contextualize the oral tradition, three short films, and four dramatic films. The book explores how members of colonized groups use the medium of film as a means for cultural and political expression and thus enter the dominant colonial film discourse and create an answering discourse. The theoretical framework is developed as an interdisciplinary approach, combining postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, and film studies. As Indigenous people are gradually taking control over the imagemaking process in the area of film and video, they cease being studied and described objects and become subjects who create self-controlled images of Indigenous cultures. The book explores the translatability of Indigenous oral tradition into film, touching upon the changes the cultural knowledge is subject to in this process, including statements of Indigenous filmmakers on this issue. It also asks whether or not there is a definite Indigenous film practice and whether filmmakers tend to dissociate their work from dominant classical filmmaking, adapt to it, or create new film forms and styles through converging classical film conventions and their conscious violation. This approach presupposes that Indigenous filmmakers are constantly in some state of reaction to Western ethnographic filmmaking and to classical narrative filmmaking and its epitome, the Hollywood narrative cinema. The films analyzed are The Road Allowance People by Maria Campbell, Itam Hakim, Hopiit by Victor Masayesva, Talker by Lloyd Martell, Tenacity and Smoke Signals by Chris Eyre, Overweight With Crooked Teeth and Honey Moccasin by Shelley Niro, Big Bear by Gil Cardinal, and Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Foucauldian Lens of Power Decolonized 2. A Postcolonial Approach to Indigenous Filmmaking in North America 3. Oral Tradition as Reflected in Film Connections Between Oral Tradition and Film 4. Short Films 5. Dramatic Films Conclusion Works Cited Filmography Internet Sources Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisWhere do our distant ancestors come from, and which routes did they travel around the globe as hunter–gatherers in prehistoric times? Genomics provides a fascinating insight into these questions and unlocks a mass of information carried by strands of DNA in each cell of the human body. For Indigenous peoples, scientific research of any kind evokes past – and not forgotten – suffering, racial and racist taxonomy, and, finally, dispossession. Survival of human cell lines outside the body clashes with traditional beliefs, as does the notion that DNA may tell a story different from their own creation story. Extracting and analysing DNA is a new science, barely a few decades old. In the medical field, it carries the promise of genetically adapted health-care. However, if this is to be done, genetic identity has to be defined first. While a narrow genetic definition might be usable by medical science, it does not do justice to Indigenous peoples’ cultural identity and raises the question of governmental benefits where their genetic identity is not strong enough. People migrate and intermix, and have always done so. Genomics trace the genes but not the cultures. Cultural survival – or revival – and Indigenous group cohesion are unrelated to DNA, explaining why Indigenous leaders adamantly refuse genetic testing. This book deals with the issues surrounding ‘biomapping’ the Indigenous, seen from the viewpoints of discourse analysts, historians, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists, museum curators, health-care specialists, and Native researchers.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Overview Susanne Berthier–Foglar: Human Genomics and the Indigenous Sheila Collingwood–Whittick: Indigenous Peoples and Western Science Sandrine Tolazzi: Reconstruction of Indigenous Identities in the Twentieth Century Defining and Mapping Renate Bartl: Genetic Blood Testing of Native Americans in the USA Ulia Popova–Gosart: Indigenous Peoples: Attempts to Define Frank Kressing: Screening Indigenous Peoples’ Genes: The End of Racism or Postmodern Bio-Imperialism? Séverine Gauthier-Labourot: No Matter How White or Black the Skin, How Pure the Blood: Cherokee Identity and the 2007 Vote Marie-Claude Strigler: Tribal Communities and Genetic Research: Concerns and Expectations Yu-Yueh Tsai: The Geneticization of Ethnicity and Ethnicization of Biomedicine: On the “Taiwan Bio-Bank” Surviving and Resisting Gerald Vizenor: Genome Survivance Jarosław Derlicki: The Edge of Extinction: Ethnic Survival Among the Yukaghirs of Northern Yakutia Sheila van Holst Pellekaan: Genetic Signatures of Australia’s First Peoples Survive Recent History Andrea Zittlau: Nutrition and the Indigenous Body: A Genetic Concept of Food Opposing and Reclaiming Sheila Collingwood–Whittick: Indigenous Opposition to Genetics Research: Views from Aboriginal Australia Emma Kowal: Disturbing Pasts and Promising Futures: The Politics of Indigenous Genetic Research in Australia Emma Kowal and Ian Anderson: Difficult Conversations: Talking About Indigenous Genetic Health Research in Australia Matthew Rimmer: Travelling Bones: The Repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains Lisa O’Sullivan: Material Legacies: Indigenous Remains and Contested Values in UK Museum Collections Natasha Golbeck and Wendy D. Roth: Aboriginal Claims: DNA Ancestry Testing and Changing Concepts of Indigeneity Notes on Contributors and Editors Index

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Book SynopsisHow does one read across cultural boundaries? The multitude of creative texts, performance practices, and artworks produced by Indigenous writers and artists in contemporary Australia calls upon Anglo-European academic readers, viewers, and critics to respond to this critical question. Contributors address a plethora of creative works by Indigenous writers, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and painters, including Richard Frankland, Lionel Fogarty, Lin Onus, Kim Scott, Sam Watson, and Alexis Wright, as well as Durrudiya song cycles and works by Western Desert artists. The complexity of these creative works transcends categorical boundaries of Western art, aesthetics, and literature, demanding new processes of reading and response. Other contributors address works by non-Indigenous writers and filmmakers such as Stephen Muecke, Katrina Schlunke, Margaret Somerville, and Jeni Thornley, all of whom actively engage in questioning their complicity with the past in order to challenge Western modes of knowledge and understanding and to enter into a more self-critical and authentically ethical dialogue with the Other. In probing the limitations of Anglo-European knowledge-systems, essays in this volume lay the groundwork for entering into a more authentic dialogue with Indigenous writers and critics.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Beate Neumeier and Kay Schaffer: Introduction Sharing Across Boundaries Kim Scott: From Drill to Dance Stephen Muecke: The Great Tradition: Translating Durrudiya’s Songs Anna Haebich: Aboriginal Families, Knowledge, and the Archives: A Case Study Michael Christie: Decolonizing Methodology in an Arnhem Land Garden Eleonore Wildburger: The ‘Cultural Design’ of Western Desert Art Ethical and Other Encounters Ian Henderson: Modernism, Antipòdernism, and Australian Aboriginality Bill Ashcroft: Material Resonance: Knowing Before Meaning Lisa Slater: Waiting at the Border: White Filmmaking on the Ground of Aboriginal Sovereignty Kay Schaffer: Wounded Spaces/Geographies of Connectivity: Stephen Muecke’s No Road (bitumen all the way), Margaret Somerville’s Body/Landscape Journals, and Katrina Schlunke’s Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre Sue Kossew: Recovering the Past: Entangled Histories in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance Reading Transformations Philip Mead: The Geopolitical Underground: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, Mining, and the Sacred Heinz Antor: Identity and the Re-Assertion of Aboriginal Knowledge in Sam Watson’s The Kadaitcha Sung Anne Brewster: Gallows Humour and Stereotyping in the Nyungar Writer. Alf Taylor’s Short Fiction: A White Cross-Racial Reading Katrin Althans: “And in my dreaming I can let go of the spirits of the past”: Gothicizing the Common Law in Richard Frankland’s No Way to Forget Beate Neumeier: Performative Lives – Transformative Practices: Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving, and Richard Frankland, Conversations with the Dead Notes on Contributors

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