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This book, and accompanying Vimeo link, contains stories about culture, history, and nationhood as told by Métis women. The Métis are known by many names, Otipemisiwak, "the people who own ourselves;" Bois Brules, "Burnt Wood;" Apeetogosan, "half-brother" by the Cree; "half-breed," historically; and are also, known as "rebels" and "traitors to Canada." They are also, known as the "Forgotten People." Few really know their story. Many people may also...
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Traditional midwifery, culture, customs, understandings, and meanings surrounding pregnancy and birth are grounded in distinct epistemologies and worldviews that have sustained Indigenous women and their families since time immemorial. Years of colonization, however, have impacted the degree to which women have choice in the place and ways they carry and deliver their babies. As nations such as Canada became colonized, traditional gender roles were...
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Este libro pretende mostrar, desde disímiles aristas, cómo se estudia lo juvenil "indígena" y cómo los jóvenes indígenas viven en el México actual. Ofrece un horizonte investigativo amplio con miradas particulares que documentan la emergencia y las vivencias de estas juventudes entre las etnias contemporáneas. Definitivamente es una propuesta que aportará a la consolidación de los campos de investigación interdisciplinarios, así como a...
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-¿Qué podría esperar el lector de este eBook ?:Con cierta frecuencia podemos encontrar información o personas que manejan conceptos de cómo manipular nuestras relaciones, sin embargo, el desarrollo de las relaciones humanas es mucho más que meras tácticas, debemos intentar mejorarnos continuamente, mental, espiritual y físicamente, debemos también trabajar constantemente con nuestro propio entorno en nuestras propias vidas, ese contexto manifestará...
5) Forever Loved: Exposing the hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in C
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The hidden crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada is both a national tragedy and a national shame. In this ground-breaking new volume, as part of their larger efforts to draw attention to the shockingly high rates of violence against our sisters, Jennifer Brant and D. Memee Lavell-Harvard have pulled together a variety of voices from the academic realms to the grassroots and front-lines to speak on what has been identified...
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Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather than simply recorded in writing.
Weaving deeply personal storytelling with extensive research on mnemonics, Songlines: The Power and Promise offers...
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The book we've all been needing for decades – a unique explanation of the Maori world for Pakeha, and for Maori people wishing to learn more about tikanga. With simple lucidity and great expertise, Keri Opai shares the spirit and meaning of what it is to be Maori in the 21st century, dispelling myths and misconceptions and providing a solid introduction to the Maori way of life.
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This book is about the two-tiered system and invisible imbalance that operates within the framework of the family. It is about the fantasy of the "happily-ever-after," which the wedding industry promotes and Western society reinforces. Why are we hanging onto this faux happiness at the expense of our future well-being? Why don't we wonder what happened after "they lived happily ever after" and if, in fact, they really do? What I hope to achieve by...
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An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for the most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western epistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the subjectivity of knowledge but also to privilege masculine authority. As a result, the information gathered predominantly reflects the types of knowledge traditionally held by men, yielding a perspective...
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The North is changing at an unprecedented rate as industrial development and the climate crisis disrupt not only the environment but also long-standing relationships to the land and traditional means of livelihood. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North explores the ways in which Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have adapted to challenging circumstances, including past cultural and environmental changes. In this beautifully...
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The voices of Indigenous women world-wide have long been silenced by colonial oppression and institutions of patriarchal dominance. Recent generations of powerful Indigenous women have begun speaking out so that their positions of respect within their families and communities might be reclaimed. The book explores issues surrounding and impacting Indigenous mothering, family and community in a variety of contexts internationally. The book addresses...
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The Great Lakes Basin is under severe ecological threat from fracking, bursting pipelines, sulfide mining, abandonment of government environmental regulation, invasive species, warming and lowering of the lakes, etc. This book presents essays on Traditional Knowledge, Indigenous Responsibility, and how Indigenous people, governments, and NGOs are responding to the environmental degradation which threatens the Great Lakes. This volume grew out of a...
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This book presents a broad range of perspectives and voices - Inuit and non-Inuit, youth and Elders, academics and community members - united in their commitment to understanding what Inuit leadership is, has been, and will be. Premised on the understanding that new ways of blending traditional knowledge with scientific epistemologies must be forged, this volume represents a continuum of voices and styles. It also deploys a diversity of formats, ranging...
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Listening to the Beat of Our Drum: Indigenous Parenting in a Contemporary Society is a collection of stories, inspired by a wealth of experiences across space and time from a kokum, an auntie, two-spirit parents, a Metis mother, a Tlinglit/Anishnabe Métis mother and an allied feminist mother. This book is born out of the need to share experiences and story. Storytelling is one of the most powerful forms of passing on teachings and values that we...
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Esta investigación resalta la transformación del paisaje, el parentesco cultural, los grupos de linaje, la organización del territorio y el poder, como elementos fundamentales que sirvieron para ordenar y jerarquizar la vida de las sociedades mesoamericanas. El territorio y la cosmovisión como ejes de análisis evidencian que la forma de la organización social dependió de la manera más viable de procesar la relación entre el hombre y la naturaleza....
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Quand des militants autochtones et non autochtones se donnent la main, comment travaillent-ils sans perdre de vue le changement social auquel ils aspirent, en gardant le cap sur leur but commun? C'est ce dont rend compte cet ouvrage, qui réunit des dirigeants, des militants communautaires, des universitaires et des intellectuels de tous horizons qui ont vécu ensemble les luttes pour les droits autochtones, l'autonomie gouvernementale et la justice...
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Los inuit, Cazadores del Gran Norte' es una obra que nos acerca a un pueblo que se conoce más por su nombre que por su realidad cultural. A partir de las historias locales, y en un lugar tan inhóspito y frío como es el Ártico, nos adentramos en una cultura que, en muchos aspectos, ha permanecido inalterable a lo largo de los siglos, y que ha seguido respetando su entorno natural como estrategia principal de su subsistencia.
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Originally published in 1922, this early work on anthropology is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the lives and customs of the Trobriand who live on an island chain in the western Pacific and is a highly regarded study of their tribal culture. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in ethnology. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before,...
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Of Living Stone: Perspectives on Continuous Knowledge and the Work of Vine Deloria, Jr. is a collection of new essays on the legacy of Vine Deloria, Jr., one of the most influential thinkers of our time. This insightful collection features more than thirty original pieces, bringing together Tribal leaders, artists, scientists, activists, scholars, legal experts, and humorists. A group of French scholars offers surprising perspectives on Deloria's...
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Una serie de ponencias, conferencias, entrevistas y textos inéditos de José del Val en los que aborda cuestiones como la identidad, la interculturalidad, los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, la multiculturalidad, la educación, la importancia de los idiomas originarios, la desigualdad y lo que el autor define como pobretología. Aquí se encontrarán diversas propuestas para abordar la problemática indígena actual, así como para comprender...
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