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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"indigenous identity"”.
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Braiding Counter-Stories: A Narrative Inquiry into Sport, Indigenous Identity, and Healing
… physical activity, and education experiences of Indigenous post-secondary student-athletes in the Canadian prairies. In Saskatchewan, where Indigenous peoples represent 17% of the population (Statistics Canada, 2022), their presence in university athletics reflects a striking gap in athletic …
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Writing Indigenous Identity in Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad's Polynesian and Malay Archipelago Novels
… are used as master models of how to write indigenous characters with rich characterization in pivotal roles, even circa 1846 and 1896. The unique perspective and technique by which they did this is explored, a technique and perspective not as dissimilar as one would think. How the authors …
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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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Indigenous identity in a contested land : a study of the Garifuna of Belize's Toledo district
… seen a significant shift in the recognition of indigenous peoples within international law. Once conceptualised as the antithesis to European identity, which in turn facilitated colonial ambitions, the recognition of indigenous identity and responding to indigenous peoples’ demands is now a …
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Sumak kawsay as generative of a new indigenous identity in the Amazonian region of Ecuador
… At the insistence of representatives of the indigenous peoples, it was inscribed in numerous places in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008, and even if not yet enforced by the national government, it expresses an aspiration in opposition to the State’s reliance upon the extractive industries. …
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Between Facebook and Boas: Kichwa Indigenous Identity in Alto Napo and Challenges to Multiculturalism in Ecuador
… qualitative study examines contemporary Kichwa indigenous identity formation in the Alto Napo region of Ecuador through Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic capital. Following an extended-case method, I analyze the articulation of <em>indigenousness</em> (as an idealized expression of tradition) …
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(Un)Interrupted Histories, Continuous Feeling: Indigenous Identity Formation and Notions of Heritage in the Southeastern Caribbean
Identity politics and heritage lie at the crux of many social struggles on the global stage today. These concerns expose a key unanswered question at the heart of Heritage Studies: What is the relationship between heritage and identity? This PhD project contributes to this global discussion by …
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‘Shifting the Landscape’, Indigenous Immersion and Bilingual Education in Mexico:Tosepan Kalnemachtiloyan. Language planning, Buen Vivir, and Representations of indigenous identity in the Sierra de Puebla, Mexico
My research focus is an indigenous, immersion and bilingual school in Mexico, from an indigenous cooperative: Tosepan Titataniske ('United we will prevail', in Nahuat). Tosepan Kalnemachtiloyan ('The School of All') is located in the unequal and diverse context distinctive of Latin America and its …
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Cosmopolitan comuneros: celebrating indigeneity through the appropriation of urbanity in the Quito Basin
My dissertation examines urban indigenous identity in the Quito Basin in contrast to essentialized representations of indigenousness that emanate from emerging multicultural state policy and prominent indigenous movements in Ecuador. Based on ethnographic research I conducted between 2003-2011, I …
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The Right to Control the Land: Law, Heritage and Self-Determination by Native Hawaiians
Hawai‘i was once an independent Indigenous sovereign island nation with a distinctive culture, history, and legislative past. The laws of the modern state of Hawai‘i reflect that history as Indigenous heritage has been integrated into state law. However, during the last forty years the laws …
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Oppression to Empowerment: The Role of Education in Facilitating the Right to Self- Determination of Indigenous Peoples
… facilitating the right to self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and investigates if education has evolved from a tool of oppression to one for the facilitation of the right to self-determination and Indigenous empowerment. The relationship between Indigenous Peoples and international law has …
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Pataxó Hãhãhãe: Race, Indigeneity and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Northeast
… only as landless (see Welch 2009) but also as indigenous and Afro-descendant (see Warren 2001, French 2009). Still, ideas about racial harmony in Brazil have remained much the same. Brazil’s self-concept as a mixed-race nation is predicated on indigenous erasure: all Brazilians are imagined to …
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A Thematic Exploration of the Liberation of Identity Through Indigenous Self-Determination: Themes of Native American and Alaska Native Identity
<p>Strong ethnic identity is associated with overall well-being, resilience to change, and higher self-esteem (Kiang et al., 2006; Martinez & Dukes, 1997; Umaña-Taylor, 2003; Yip & Fuligni, 2002) and serves as a protective factor against the stress associated with discrimination (Alvarez & Kimura, …
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Transnational Indigenous Migration: Racialized Geographies and Power in Southern Highland Ecuador
… political and social upward mobility among indigenous communities. More specifically I ask: in what ways does indigenous identity figure in contemporary international migration practices, how does transnational indigenous migration complicate bounded notions of rural indigenous life, and how …
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Smudging the Cystem; Rejecting the Politics of Traditionalism and Settler-Homonationalism
This is a study of LGBTQ2 Indigenous identity and politics in colonial Canada. Scholars of Indigenous politics have recently focused on the importance of interrogating the sexualized and heteronormative landscape of settler colonialism, which has led to the proliferation of anti-queer violence …
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Gendered pathways: family violence as a primary pathway into homelessness for women
… were consistent with the male participants. Indigenous identity and homelessness were also explored. Erving Goffman’s theory of dramaturgy was used to portray identity in terms of homelessness and victimization to demonstrate the hidden nature of these two issues. The common themes and …
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Small Robe Band of Blackfeet: Ethnogenesis by Social and Religious Transformation
… challenges facing Native Americans and their indigenous identity is a greater understanding of the historical complexity of relationships that interconnected ethnically diverse populations across geographic landscapes. This thesis examines the range of Blackfoot political, social, economic …
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Small Robe Band of Blackfeet: Ethnogenesis by Social and Religious Transformation
… challenges facing Native Americans and their indigenous identity is a greater understanding of the historical complexity of relationships that interconnected ethnically diverse populations across geographic landscapes. This thesis examines the range of Blackfoot political, social, economic …
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Exploring the role of resilience and perceived organizational support in the secondary trauma experience of Canadian post-secondary student affairs professionals
… relationship between the variables of female identity, Indigenous identity, and working in an ancillary or enrollment services function, and secondary trauma. A stronger predictive relationship was found between resilience and secondary trauma, while perceived organizational support was not …
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Bleeding Red: Decolonizing the Actor's Process in Search of Emotional Authenticity
… in performance through an investigation of my Indigenous identity and decolonization. Through the role of Maybe Jane and ensemble member in the adaptation of Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, I intend to explore indigenizing my role and process to access my full range of emotion, …
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