For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook / Edition 1

by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson, Michael Yellow Bird

Overview

Recognizing an urgent need for Indigenous liberation strategies, Indigenous intellectuals met to create a book with hands-on suggestions and activities to enable Indigenous communities to decolonize themselves. The authors begin with the belief that Indigenous Peoples have the power, strength, and intelligence to develop culturally specific decolonization strategies for their own communities and thereby systematically pursue their own liberation. These scholars and writers demystify the language of colonization and decolonization to help Indigenous communities identify useful concepts, terms, and intellectual frameworks in their struggles toward liberation and self-determination. This handbook covers a wide range of topics, including Indigenous governance, education, language, oral tradition, repatriation, images and stereotypes, and truth-telling. It aims to facilitate critical thinking while offering recommendations for fostering community discussions and plans for meaningful community action.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781930618633
Publisher:	School for Advanced Research Press
Publication date:	12/01/2005
Series:	School of American Research Native America Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	464,429
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

"Intertwined commentary on colonialism and some of the theoretical underpinnings of decolonization...mixes with functionalist advice.... Regardless of the degree of translation among tribal communities, the positions of these intellectuals frame important points of information for "indigenous eyes" in particular Ideas are important and the call for action trumpeted in this Decolonization Handbook is what all Indian students should consider." -- Gregory Gagnon

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