#indigenization

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Indigenized Eevee

Going Southeastern traditional

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I've long been in my decolonize and Indigenize my Christian faith chapter of my Christian faith journey 💖

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Jearica Fountain

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Collaborative Indigenous Research

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Examples of decolonial research methodologies - Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s 25 Indigenous projects:

Claiming

“They teach both the non-indigenous audience and the new generations of Indigenous peoples an official account of their collective story” (p. 144)

Testimonies

“Indigenous testimonies are a way of talking about an extremely painful event or series of events” (p. 144)

Storytelling

“These new stories contribute to a collective story in which every Indigenous person has a place” (p. 144)

Celebrating Survival

“Celebrating survival accentuates not so much our demise but the degree to which Indigenous peoples and communities have successfully retained cultural and spiritual values and authenticity” (p. 145)

Remembering

“Both healing and transformation become crucial strategies in any approach which asks a community to remember what they may have decided unconsciously or consciously to forget” (p. 146)

Indigenizing

“The term centres a politics of Indigenous identity and indigenous cultural action” (p. 146)

Intervening

“Intervening takes action research to mean literally the process of being proactive and of becoming involved as an interested working for change” (p. 147)

Revitalizing

“Indigenous languages, their arts and their cultural practices are in various states of crisis” (p. 147)

Connecting

“Connecting is related to issues of identity and place, to spiritual relationships and community well-being” (p. 149)

Reading

“Critical rereading of Western History and the Indigenous presence in the making of that history has taken on a different impetus from what was once a school curriculum designed to assimilate Indigenous children” (p. 149)

Writing

“Biographies and autobiographies including those which are accounts ‘told to a non-Indigenous person’, are sought after by a new reading audience of Indigenous people” (p. 150)

Representing

“Indigenous communities have struggled since colonization to be able to exercise what is viewed as a fundamental right, that is to represent ourselves” (p. 150)

Gendering

“Gendering Indigenous debates…is concerned with issues related to the relations between Indigenous men and women” (p. 151)

Envisioning

“The confidence of knowing that we have survived and can only go forward provides some impetus to a process of envisioning” (p. 152)

Reframing

“Reframing is about taking much greater control over the ways in which Indigenous issues and social problems are discussed and handled” (p. 153)

Restoring

“Indigenous peoples across the world have disproportionately high rates of imprisonment, suicide and alcoholism” (p. 155)

Returning

“This project intersects with that of claiming. It involves the returning of lands, rivers, and mountains to their Indigenous owners” (p. 155).

Democratizing

“Democratizing in Indigenous terms is a process of extending participation outwards through reinstating principles of collectivity and public debates” (p. 156)

Networking

“Networking a process which Indigenous peoples have used effectively to build relationships and disseminate knowledge and information” (p. 157)

Naming

“This means renaming the world using the original Indigenous names” (p. 157)

Protecting

“This project is…concerned with protecting peoples, communities, languages, customs and beliefs, art ideas, natural resources and the things Indigenous peoples produce” (p. 158)

Creating

“The project of creating is about transcending the basic survival mode through using a resource or capability which every Indigenous community has retained throughout colonization – the ability to create and be creative” (p. 158)

Negotiating

“Negotiating is about thinking and acting strategically…the continued faith in the process of negotiating is about retaining a faith in the humanity of Indigenous beliefs, values and customary practices” (p. 160)

Discovering

“This project is about discovering Western science and technology and making science work for Indigenous development” (p. 160)

Sharing

“The final project discussed here is about sharing knowledge between Indigenous peoples, around networks and across the world of Indigenous peoples” (p. 160).

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