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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Indigenous values"”.
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Empowering Place: Unlocking Value for Investors by Integrating Indigenous Values in Luxury Hospitality
The luxury hospitality industry has long been attuned to shifting consumer preferences, particularly as travelers increasingly seek unique, meaningful experiences. In today’s global market, trends centered on personalization, wellness, authenticity, and regeneration—further accelerated in the …
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Native Voices and Native Values in Sacred Landscapes Management: Bridging the Indigenous Values Gap on Public Lands Through Co-Management Policy
… are the issues, fundamental elements and core values of a "best-practices" sacred lands co-management model? This question is important because Native sacred lands protection and access are essential to reinforcing cultural identity and well-being, and revitalizing tribal communities. Across …
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Rapping Back: Counter-narratives from Auckland, New Zealand
… their message starkly opposed to the normative values of New Zealand. The musicians of Homebrew and @Peace, a mix of Polynesian and Pakeha (people of European descent), employ methods of decolonization theory through the use of storytelling and focus on indigenous values. In a country that has …
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Researching Indigenous Australians in Tourism
… central focus of this work is 'Participation by Indigenous Australians in Tourism Ventures', a theme that has much relevance to the contemporary tourism industry and the Indigenous people of Australia. It is being pursued with appropriate respect for Indigenous values and customs, and is offered …
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Indigenous Narrative Sovereignty: Pathways Through Turtle Island Film Festivals and Diverse Media Ecosystems
This dissertation follows Indigenous filmmakers today and examines their surrounding support structures through: the development of Kin Theory, an Indigenous media makers database, the 4th World Media Lab fellowship for emerging Indigenous filmmakers, and the world's largest presenter of Indigenous …
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Reimagining Indigenous Identity through Performance Text-Counting Coup on the "Cop in the Head"
This dissertation interrogates obscured Indigenous identities by way of an original dramatic script that employs story-telling as an inherent cultural device that sustains a sense of peoplehood. In an art-based inquiry, I use Gerald Vizenor's notion of "postindian" to respond to the ways in which …
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Pa’ashi National Park: Resiliency, Restoration, and Reparative Planning for California’s Tulare Lake Basin
… of the Tachi Yokut Tribe, one of the watershed's Indigenous communities, to preserve Pa'ashi in the form of a new National Park. I present historical and environmental context that explains how the lake was put to sleep by Manifest Destiny-era agricultural settlement and subsequent consolidation …
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Integrating Indigenous Cultural Values and Sustainable Architecture for Healing and Empowerment.
This study delves into integrating Indigenous cultural values, traditional healing practices, and sustainable architecture to create a comprehensive framework for fostering healing, reconciliation, and empowerment among homeless and vulnerable Indigenous populations in Calgary, Canada. The study …
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Water as Pedagogy
This qualitative study uses Indigenous storywork as a form of personally situated, decolonial research. My aim is to study the ways in which water as a sentient being, healing spirit, and teacher taught me about human and more-than-human relationships. Deploying an Indigenous womxnist and feminist …
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Water laws and the cultural values associated with rivers: Current frameworks and future directions.
… of cosmologies and spiritual practices, and indigenous ways of living and being. These ‘cultural’ values associated with rivers are the focus of this study. Laws which govern the use and conservation of rivers are generally concerned with safeguarding the socio-economic benefits generated by …
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Indigenous Self-Government Negotiations in the Northwest Territorries (NWT), Canada: Time, Reality and Social Suffering
… exploring how temporal characterizations of Indigenous peoples, and injustices they suffer, are used by Canadian state representatives to restrict Canada's approaches to resolving injustice. This temporally based approach underpins a broader federal policy orientation rendering meaningless …
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Akapapa – The Journey Home
… practice, integrating creativity, faith, indigenous values, and trauma-informed methodologies. It offers practical tools for practitioners, charitable organisations, and professional communities seeking to cultivate resilience, longevity, and ethical leadership. The research concludes by …
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An investigation of the acquisition, transfer and preservation of indigenous knowledge by traditional healers in Chibombo district of Zambia.
Indigenous Knowledge on healing is in danger of diminishing because of modern medical facilities and yet there are inadequate efforts from national and organizational institutions to capture this knowledge. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the acquisition, transfer and preservation of …
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An investigation of the acquisition, transfer and preservation of indigenous knowledge by traditional healers in Chibombo district of Zambia.
Indigenous Knowledge on healing is in danger of diminishing because of modern medical facilities and yet there are inadequate efforts from national and organizational institutions to capture this knowledge. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the acquisition, transfer and preservation of …
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Determinants of risky sexual behaviors of Kenyan immigrant men in the US and during visits in Kenya
… HIV/AIDS among Kenyan males?, 2) What cultural values, beliefs and practices support risky sexual behaviors among Kenyan males?, 3) How do changes in the social and cultural contexts of Kenyan male immigrants affect their thoughts and behaviors about HIV/AIDS risk?, 4) What are the effects of …
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Thunderbird: Embracing Indigenous Voices of Resistance
“Indigenous people have not surrendered to the colonial structures embedded within the current government” (Karim). For over four centuries, Indigenous identities, stories, and lifestyles were silenced due to aggressive actions of settler colonialism. Initially, this was accomplished through …
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Understanding and Addressing Barriers to Indigenous Learners in Business and Accounting Studies
… a significant gap in understanding the barriers Indigenous peoples face as they pursue business and accounting disciplines at the post-secondary level. Using structured interviews and content analysis, the study explored barriers and means the learners used and opined to remove or reduce those …