scholarly journals Kichesippi Blues: Activating Indigenous Memory Through a Journey on Ottawa's Great River

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Stock
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Memory

Unreliable Confessions:Khipusin the Colonial Parish

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Charles
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
European Contact ◽  
Spanish Colonization ◽  
Indigenous Memory ◽  
Angel Rama

The historiography of the book in the age of Spanish imperial expansionism has traditionally viewed printed works as repressive instruments of colonial domination that forcefully supplanted the native Americans' non-alphabetic vehicles of memory and communication. Accounts of the Europeans' wholesale destruction of native holy objects and material forms of expression bespeak the undisputable role of books in the Spanish colonization of indigenous memory and symbolizing practices. But the existence of colonial-era writings that testify to the resiliency of native technologies poses still-unanswered questions about the mechanisms by which this colonization took place and the ultimate reach of print culture in local native communities removed from the urban centers where, as Ángel Rama has suggested, written documents held sway. To what extent did native methods of communication endure under Spanish rule? What might the documentary traces of their use reveal about how they were transformed as a result of European contact? Can we tie their survival to concrete means by which native peoples withstood or adjusted to the Europeans' written culture and colonizing institutions? I would like to attempt to answer these questions by focusing on missionary uses of Andeankhipus:the knotted cords used by the Inca for the purposes of accounting and historical record keeping, which native parishioners employed in colonial times for learning Christian doctrine and recalling sins prior to confession.

scholarly journals Book Review: Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred De Zayas
Keyword(s):  
Political Correctness ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
Indigenous Memory

In this timely and morally necessary book, Tamara Starblanket gives particular attention to the forced transfer of Indigenous children to institutions whose raison d’être was to indoctrinate and “educate” them away from their culture and heritage so as to erase Indigenous memory and reprogram younger generations as “Canadians.” These institutions were notorious for death and disease, torture, forced starvation, forced labour, and sexual predation. The book’s structure is well-ordered, the argumentation compelling, but not in phoney “scholarly detachment,” instead in conscious compilation and analysis of the evidence, supported by the force of ethics and a commitment to truth and justice, regardless of zeitgeist and political correctness.

scholarly journals Museums and indigenous memory: the Katxuyana’s collections and the contemporaneity of musealized material culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-509
Author(s):  
Adriana Russi ◽  
Astrid Kieffer-Døssing
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Indigenous Memory ◽  
Ethnographic Collections

Currently, ethnographic collections are at the center of a debate about the new meaning of museum collections, which questions the actuality of the preserved material culture. These issues also refer to the promotion of otherness and protagonism of the ‘collected people’ in museums, which trigger the interest of both researchers and indigenous people. The same is happening with the collections of the Amerindian Katxuyana. These collections count more than 700 objects collected by different expeditions at different moments in time and the collections have been preserved for more than 50 years in European and Brazilian museums. Despite this long timespan the objects are material records from everyday life, rituals and festive moments, and they reveal a little about the life of this people in the first half of the twentieth century. Some parts of these collections have been the source of dialogical experiences between researchers and Katxuyana in order to evoke memories and knowledge. This paper describe a bit about this course of approximation between Katxuyana and the collections.

From Monmouth to Madoc to Māori

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Wallace Cleaves
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Indigenous Research Methodologies ◽  
Indigenous Memory ◽  
Tribal Nation

Abstract This essay examines how Indigenous research methodologies can be usefully applied to medieval texts. It does this by recounting and engaging with personal experience and by interrogating how research is deployed for colonial purpose. The use of medieval English texts by early modern and later colonial proponents and apologists, particularly John Dee, emphasize the inherent colonial purpose of traditional research methodologies. These processes are contrasted with Indigenous research methodologies, particularly those proposed by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, and the author’s own personal experience and that of his tribal nation of how Indigenous memory and inquiry can inform research practices that are relational and not exploitive.

CHAPTER 5. The Colours of Indigenous Memory: Non-invasive Analyses of Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican Codices

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Domenici ◽  
David Buti ◽  
Costanza Miliani ◽  
Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti ◽  
Antonio Sgamellotti
Keyword(s):  
Non Invasive ◽  
Indigenous Memory

scholarly journals Indigenous memory, forgetting and the archives

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Nakata
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Memory
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