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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Indigenous epistemologies"”.
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Reimagining BC modern treaties: a critical discourse analysis of the Tsawwassen, Maa-nulth, and Tla'amin final agreements
… process is to resolve the status of unceded Indigenous lands, promising to foster Indigenous self-governance while providing legal “certainty” for resource extractive industries. However, only 65 of over-200 First Nations in BC have engaged in negotiations, and just seven have implemented …
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The Historical Exclusion of Mexican Americans in Music Education
… in engaging Mexican American youth using Indigenous epistemologies and decolonial pedagogies as a way to counteract the effects of an education system rooted in colonialism. Additionally, the counter-stories presented suggest that community music-making was historically the primary mode of …
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The Call of the Buffalo: Exploring Kinship with the Buffalo in Indigenous Creative Expression
… examines the kinship relationship between Indigenous peoples and our relative the buffalo. I posit that texts in which Indigenous peoples express their relationship with the buffalo contain expressions of Indigenous epistemologies. Indigenous kinship theory, Indigenous critical geography, …
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Searching for Pōhakuloa: A Citizen Scientist’s Journey in Aloha ‘Āina
… States (US) military’s land occupation of two Indigenous Hawaiian <em>wahi pana </em>(sacred places), on O’ahu and Hawai’i Island, which have produced widespread health concerns regarding exposure to military toxins. I conducted six months of fieldwork in Hawai’i, in which I partnered with …
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“TO THOSE WHO SAY WE ARE ASSIMILATED, I SAY HOGWASH!”: A HISTORY OF THE WYANDOT OF ANDERDON DAY SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, 1790 TO 1915
… diaspora. This dissertation counters Indigenous education scholarship which argues that western-style schooling seeks to erase Indigenous ways of knowledge and replace it with Settler systems of knowing. Moreover, this dissertation builds on diaspora and Wendat/Wandat studies, which …
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An Exploration into the Criminalization of Indigenous Men in Canada: CCDA through Hubbard's Documentaries
The criminalization of Indigenous men is a critical issue rooted in colonialism, systemic racism, and social inequality. This thesis explores the ways Indigenous men in Canada are criminalized through discursive practices that reflect and maintain colonial power relations. The research …
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Sacred Justices: Seeking Indigenous Environmental Justice in Courts
… studies how courts encounter and engage with Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ) in litigation pursued by Indigenous communities in Australia, Brazil, and Canada. The thesis advances IEJ as a principle that may be framed, used and developed in juridical spaces. The research draws from …
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Forest insects, personhood and the environment: Harurwa (edible stinkbugs) and conservation in south-eastern Zimbabwe
… paradigmatic oppositions such as science versus indigenous knowledge and nature versus culture and as such forms part of a major epistemological shift in Anthropology towards rethinking the binaries created by enlightenment modern thought which have for so long served to confine anthropological …
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Exploring and Re-envisioning the Significance of Agrarian Consciousness in Theology with Specific Reference to Kerala
… that can help to develop a theology based on the indigenous epistemologies and practices of the region and thereby help to support a society based on an agrarian living eco-system.</p> <p>Through this thesis, I try to focus on the importance of regaining the lost values of the agrarian eco-system …
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Sacred Power and Chiefly Headdresses in Sāmoa, Tonga, and Fiji
… is invested in recovering and recuperating the indigenous knowledge and visually encoded meanings associated with chiefly headdresses in the Pacific, using a form of analysis that is centred on themes of personhood, lineage, and materiality. These themes are woven in throughout the thesis using …
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Nhoroondo muridzi wayo: the changing nature of archaeological research and heritage management at Great Zimbabwe
… to explore the relationship between local and indigenous communities around Great Zimbabwe and various dimensions of archaeology and heritage management. A desktop analysis of archaeological research trends at the site was carried out. Questionnaires and interviews were used to determine …
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Stories of war and restitution Curating the narratives of the !xun storyteller Kapilolo Mahongo (1952 – 2018)
… history and for the first time, record an Indigenous !xun perspective of the regional wars during the latter part of the 20th century - and its aftermath. By focusing on his personal stories, I demonstrate how anti-colonial narratives are embodied in specific and multiple histories and …
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Repatriation claims on cultural material from former British colonies in museums in Britain and Ireland: using experiences to effect change
… and assumptions of authority that conflict with Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Their repatriation policies remain grounded in Western frameworks of ownership and knowledge transmission, thereby perpetuating colonialist practices rather than dismantling them. This thesis investigates the …
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Settler school psychologists readiness to decolonize practice
… their professional practice in working with Indigenous students and their families. Data was gathered through two rounds of interviews with seven settler school psychologists across Western and Northern Canada who are active in the profession. A personalized “self-location” situates the …
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Papatuanuku's Progeny: Foremothers of Maori Women's Poetry Written in English
… within a Māori world view and engage with these indigenous poets appropriately by drawing upon indigenous epistemologies. The principle of whakapapa (genealogy) is derived from Papatūānuku and is often described as layers. This thesis peels back layers of personal and social histories to reveal …
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Rescatando a la Pachamama
This dissertation focuses on indigenous epistemologies of the “Mother Earth” to understand the cultural significance and Andeans’ affective relationship with native landscapes and nature. To do so, I examine mythical discourses found in oral narratives and other forms of representation to argue how …
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Grisilience: An Interpretivist Qualitative Case Study Of Indigenous Employees’ Success In Reaching Management And Professional Positions Within The Gaming Industry In Canada: Contributing Factors And Barriers
This doctoral study critically examines Indigenous representation and advancement within Canada’s gaming industry, focusing on the Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation (SaskGaming), with comparative insights from the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA) and U.S. Tribal gaming operations. Although …
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder : circles of healing, transformation and reconciliation, Ke-ge-na-thee-tum-we-in
… It is largely situated within holistic Indigenous epistemologies, which may require a paradigm shift, in contrast to more bounded western world views. Interdisciplinary, holistic, community-based research on the topic of FASD, including a search for solutions, extends globally, across …
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"They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds." "Trataron de Enterrarnos, Pero No Sabían Que Éramos Semillas" - The Mexican American/Raza Studies Political and Legal Struggle: A Content Analysis
… Studies/Ethnic Studies (Arce, 2017), 3) Chicanx-Indigenous epistemologies serving as central to the curriculum and pedagogy of Chicanx Studies/Ethnic Studies to effectively address the holistic needs of Mexican American-Chicanx youth (Arce, 2016; Toscano Villanueva, 2013; Zavala, 2018), 4) the …
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Imperial reorderings of land and belonging in Bilad al-Sham: on the disruption of an indigenous ontology of dwelling
… in twentieth-century Bilad al-Sham reconfigured Indigenous understandings of land, and how contemporary imperial and neoliberal orders continue to reshape people’s relationships to place. Using my hometown, al-Fuheis, as a case study, I trace how an ontology once marked by fluid, relational, …