Making the Case for the Incorporation of African Indigenous Elders and their Cultural Knowledges into Schools

2022 ◽  
pp. 153-174
Author(s):  
George J. Sefa Dei ◽  
Wambui Karanja ◽  
Grace Erger
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Elders

Calls to Action: Climate Change and Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Arctic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranjan Datta
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Assessment Policy ◽  
Policy Guideline ◽  
Indigenous Perspectives ◽  
Indigenous Elders

<p>This study is responding reconciling Indigenous climate change and food sovereignty in Arctic<strong>.</strong> We will explore, how recent climate change (and interpretation) is challenging to Indigenous food sovereignty sources; and what is at stake in processes such as hunting consultation, impact assessment, regulatory hearings, approvals (including negotiation of benefits), monitoring? and what reformed processes can build Indigenous community capacity and supports robust decisions? The outcomes will assist policy makers and communities to guide future consultations and impacts assessment guideline and climate change planning initiatives. We (as an interdisciplinary research team of Indigenous Elders, knowledge-keepers, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars) will focus on Indigenous understanding of Indigenous philosophies of climate change and the connectivity between climate change and food sovereignty and sustainability related to the interactions and inter-dependencies with health security, Indigenous environmental and cultural value protection. Indigenous knowledge-ways have much to offer in support of resiliency of climate change and water infrastructure in Indigenous communities, intercultural reconceptualization of research methodologies, environmental sustainability, and educational programs which support Indigenous communities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Action Plan: Objective: </strong>Supporting Indigenous perspectives on climate change impact management and food sovereignty. This includes involving members of Indigenous community to offer insight into Indigenous cultural and community responsibilities of Indigenous climate change impacts management to inform food sovereignty performance review policy development. <strong>Contribution: </strong>The designing, coordinating, and hosting an interdisciplinary Focused Dialogue Session on the relationship between climate change impacts management and food sovereignty. This Dialogue Session creates new scholarly knowledge about pipeline leak impacts and food sovereignty processes. <strong>Objective:</strong> Developing effective and trustful engagement dialogs to build capacity among Indigenous Elders, Knowledge-keepers, and scholars. <strong>Contribution: </strong>This objective supports Indigenous perspectives through specific, policy-orientated research that positively impacts their vision and allow them to develop new ways of climate change impacts and food sovereignty. This reveals climate change impacts management and food sovereignty policy and practices in Arctic. <strong>Objective: </strong>Mobilize knowledge and partnership for reconciliation (specifically translate research results into evidence for policy-making) through developing an impact assessment policy guideline. <strong>Contribution: </strong>The impact assessment policy guideline shares knowledge and implications of climate change impacts management policy documents local, provincially, and nationally and assist in the articulation and practice of food sovereignty source protection, as culturally and community informed.</p>

Land and the Living Roots of Language: From Rights to Reconciliation

1969 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Fettes
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Living World ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
Indigenous Elders

Included in the Calls to Action of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission are several Calls pertaining to Indigenous languages. However, the terms of Western discourse on rights, and on language itself, risk obscuring the fundamental connections between language and land that Indigenous Elders and scholars have insisted on. Drawing on a diverse literature, I argue that language is, indeed, bound up with the ways in which we inhabit the living world, and that genuine reconciliation requires rethinking language policy and management from this perspective.

scholarly journals The Creation of the CFLA/FCAB Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The First Report

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Smith
Keyword(s):  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
First Report ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Le Canada ◽  
Indigenous Elders

One of the top priorities of the newly formed Canadian Federation of Libraries Associations/Fédération canadienne des associations de bibliothèques (CFLA/FCAB) was to create a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to promote initiatives in all types of libraries to advance reconciliation by supporting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, and to support collaboration in these issues across the Canadian library communities. Thus, this first committee was formed with representatives of the CFLA/FCAB Board and library association’s nominees from all across Canada. From the beginning, the Committee worked with Indigenous leaders and sought the guidance of Indigenous Elders. This paper presents a summary of this Committee creation, organization, and work, as well as the recommendations to the CFLA/FCAB Board. L’une des principales priorités de la Fédération canadienne des associations de bibliothèques (FCAB), qui a été récemment mise sur pied, est la création d’une comité de vérité et de réconciliation afin de promouvoir des initiatives dans tous les milieux de bibliothèque pour faire avancer la réconciliation en appuyant les appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et de réconciliation du Canada et en appuyant la collaboration concernant ces enjeux parmi la communauté des bibliothèques au Canada. Alors, le premier comité a été formé avec des représentants du conseil d’administration de la FCAB et des associations des bibliothèques à travers le Canada. Dès le début, le comité travaille avec des leaders autochtones et recherche les conseils des ainés autochtones. Cet article présente un sommaire de la création, de l’organisation et du travail du comité ainsi que des recommandations au conseil de la FCAB.

scholarly journals Surviving a Cultural Genocide: Perspectives of Indigenous Elders on the Transfer of Traditional Values

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 316
Author(s):  
Shawn Clark ◽  
Ruth Wylie
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Cultural Genocide ◽  
Culturally Tailored ◽  
Indigenous Elders

The purpose of this ethnographic study was to examine how Indigenous elders perceive traditional values. This study employed Portraiture, which allowed Indigenous elders to share their stories in a culturally tailored and relational manner. The authors’ captured and present richly detailed stories that describe the intersects between human experiences and sacred beliefs. The scholars eloquently braid the first authors experiences at three (3) traditional Indigenous ceremonies with the words of Indigenous elders to tell a story about overcoming an attempted cultural genocide. The ceremony participation and elder visits helped identify ten traditional values encasing spirituality displayed in the Hoop of Traditional Blackfoot Values presented in the English language and the Blackfoot language. 

scholarly journals Elders' Teachings about Resilience and its Implications for Education in Dene and Cree Communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John G Hansen ◽  
Rose Antsanen
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Indigenous Educators ◽  
Indigenous Elders

This study developed out of a need to discuss Eurocentrism in Indigenous education and to provide what the Elders describe as an appropriate educational experience. The purpose of the study was, within a northern context, to discuss Indigenous education, and how educators and Elders perceived their cultural models, values, and aspirations of Indigenous resilience. This study deals with Indigenous resilience based on knowledge held by Indigenous educators and Elders with respect to the traditional teachings and values within Indigenous cultures in Northern Manitoba. We present the perspectives held by these constituents with respect to the notions of Indigenous resiliency. Two Indigenous researchers of Dene and Cree nations share their perspectives based on interviews with Indigenous Elders about traditional education in Northern Manitoba. Interview results demonstrate that a traditional, culturally appropriate model of education is significant to Indigenous resilience development.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document