scholarly journals Confronting Colonisation: Contemporary Canadian and Australian Picture Books About Indigenous Peoples

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina de Liberato
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Symbiotic Relationships ◽  
The Past ◽  
Geographical Variations ◽  
Family Language

This paper will examine how Canadian and Australian picture books about Indigenous peoples have evolved over the past three decades into texts that imagine the survival of Indigenous languages and land despite colonisation. Drawing on a sample of six contemporary picture books about Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada and Australia, I will explore how these works challenge representations of Indigenous peoples as the Other through complimentary textual and visual techniques that instead Other colonists (Nodelman 29). By positioning European colonisers as foreign invaders who fail in their attempts to erase rather than understand vibrant Indigenous cultures, these texts enable Indigenous communities to symbolically reclaim the land, family, language, and identity taken by colonial forces. Contemporary Canadian and Australian picture books about the European colonisation of Indigenous peoples assert the value of Indigeneity by mobilising a juxtaposition of Indigenous versus non-Indigenous through contrasting shapes and colours that enhance textual differences between colonised and coloniser. While Canadian texts highlight the healing capabilities of Indigenous languages, Australian texts emphasise how symbiotic relationships with the land empower Indigenous peoples, reflecting geographical variations between Indigenous histories in each country that ultimately encourage diverse representations of Indigeneity.

scholarly journals Confronting Colonisation: Contemporary Canadian and Australian Picture Books About Indigenous Peoples

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina de Liberato
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Symbiotic Relationships ◽  
The Past ◽  
Geographical Variations ◽  
Family Language

This paper will examine how Canadian and Australian picture books about Indigenous peoples have evolved over the past three decades into texts that imagine the survival of Indigenous languages and land despite colonisation. Drawing on a sample of six contemporary picture books about Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada and Australia, I will explore how these works challenge representations of Indigenous peoples as the Other through complimentary textual and visual techniques that instead Other colonists (Nodelman 29). By positioning European colonisers as foreign invaders who fail in their attempts to erase rather than understand vibrant Indigenous cultures, these texts enable Indigenous communities to symbolically reclaim the land, family, language, and identity taken by colonial forces. Contemporary Canadian and Australian picture books about the European colonisation of Indigenous peoples assert the value of Indigeneity by mobilising a juxtaposition of Indigenous versus non-Indigenous through contrasting shapes and colours that enhance textual differences between colonised and coloniser. While Canadian texts highlight the healing capabilities of Indigenous languages, Australian texts emphasise how symbiotic relationships with the land empower Indigenous peoples, reflecting geographical variations between Indigenous histories in each country that ultimately encourage diverse representations of Indigeneity.

Indigenous communities and climate change: a Recognition, Empowerment and Devolution (RED) framework in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Nikolakis ◽  
Quentin Grafton ◽  
Aimee Nygaard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Murray Darling Basin ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Depth Interviews

Climate change directly threatens Indigenous cultures and livelihoods across Australia's Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). Using a modified grounded theory methodology, this study draws on in-depth interviews with Indigenous leaders and elders across the MDB to highlight that climate variability and over-extraction of water resources by agricultural users directly threatens the integrity of aquatic systems. As a consequence, Indigenous cultures and livelihoods reliant on these natural systems are at risk. Interviewees identify a range of systemic barriers that entrench vulnerability of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the MDB. Building on insights from the literature and from interviews, a Recognition, Empowerment and Devolution (RED) framework is developed to establish possible pathways to support climate adaptation by rural IPs. Fundamental to this RED framework is the need for non-Indigenous socio-institutional structures to create a ‘space’ to allow IPs the ability to adapt in their own ways to climate impacts.

scholarly journals Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs), Aichi Target 11 and Canada’s Pathway to Target 1: Focusing Conservation on Reconciliation

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Zurba ◽  
Karen Beazley ◽  
Emilie English ◽  
Johanna Buchmann-Duck
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Aichi Biodiversity Targets

This article provides analysis of the issues relating to movement towards new models for Indigenous-led conservation in light of Canada’s initiatives for greater protected areas representation through Target 1. We provide a background on Canada’s Pathway to Target 1, which is based on Target 11 from the Aichi Biodiversity Targets set forth by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). We contemplate the past, present and future of colonization and reconciliation in Canada, and consider the influence of international declarations, programs and initiatives on the potential for the formation of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs). We then provide an analysis of “wicked problems” that Indigenous communities, governments, and other stakeholders in protected areas will need to navigate towards implementing the IPCA approach in Canada. We outline the different types of Indigenous involvement in protected areas and how they potentially fit within the principles for the development of IPCAs. We then turn our discussion to the need to refocus conservation on reconciliation by restoring nation-to-nation relationships and relationships between the land and peoples. The lessons we draw have potential parallels for other nation states, particularly those signatory to the CBD and with a colonial history, aiming for biodiversity conservation and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples through IPCAs.

scholarly journals From Community Autonomy in Hungary to Indigenous Self-Determination in the Outback of Australia: Can Non-Territorial Autonomy Find Traction Down Under?

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Bertus de Villiers
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
Insight Into

Hungary has, during the past three decades, developed what could arguably be described as one of the most advanced institutional systems of non-territorial autonomy in the world. Being so advanced does not of course mean the system is perfect or beyond criticism. But it does provide potentially useful insights into how non-territorial autonomy can or cannot work in practice. This article reflects on the institutional design of Hungary and asks whether principles can be identified that may be employed by indigenous groups in Australia and beyond in their search for a form of self-government. The theory and practice of non-territorial autonomy has so far been the focus of experts predominately from Central and Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation. This article considers whether any insight can be gained to apply the principles of non-territorial autonomy to other jurisdictions. The institutional design in place in Hungary may offer useful insight into how indigenous communities, particular some Aboriginal communities in Australia, may be bestowed with legal powers as a community to make decisions of a cultural and linguistic nature and to cooperate via the legal entity with local and state authorities. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples refers to selfdetermination and autonomy without placing those terms into a specific set of institutional arrangements. Whereas non-territorial autonomy may not be suitable for all communities, this article contends that non-territorial arrangements may offer an opportunity for self-government to indigenous (and other) communities that share a strong sense of identity; that do not have a geographical base where they constitute the majority; and where a communal desire for a form of self-government in public law exists.

scholarly journals The spread of covid-19 and psychiatric impact on indigenous peoples

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-137
Author(s):  
Tainã Brito Siebra de Oliveira ◽  
Jorge Lucas de Sousa Moreira ◽  
Pedro Walisson Gomes Feitosa ◽  
Danielly Gonçalves Sombra Lima ◽  
Bárbara Silveira Dionízio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Panic Attacks ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Generalized Anxiety ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Unipolar Major Depression

Background: Information on strategies adopted by Indigenous peoples against COVID-19 is scarce, and history shows that Indigenous peoples in the Amazon region may be particularly affected by the  pandemic. Method: The studies were identified in well-known international journals found in two electronic databases: Scopus and Embase. The data were cross-checked with information from the main international newspapers. Results: Mental disorders in the affective spectrum (unipolar major depression, dysthymia, bipolarity) and anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks, social phobia) also mark the reality of Indigenous psychiatric vulnerability. Conclusions: To mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous communities in Brazil, a health service for Indigenous groups, a crisis office, and a monitoring panel were created. In the state of Amazonas, home to more Indigenous people than any other Brazilian state, 95% of the intensive care beds are occupied.  Thus, mental health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples may be related to the underlying economic, social, and political inequities that are legacies of colonization and oppression of Indigenous cultures; the disproportionate rates of mental disorders must be understood in context, not as intrinsic predisposition of Indigenous peoples, but as reflecting persistent inequalities.

scholarly journals Cree Elders’ Perspectives on Land-Based Education: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-91
Author(s):  
John Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Indigenous Land

This study deals with the notion that Indigenous peoples are concerned with preserving their communities, nations, cultural values, and educational traditions. Indigenous peoples have a land-based education system that emerges out of their own worldviews and perspectives, which need to be applied to research concerning Indigenous cultures. This work explores Indigenous land-based education through the perspectives of Cree Elders of Northern, Manitoba. Six Cree Elders were interviewed to explore the ideas and practices of land-based education. The article engages discussion of Indigenous land-based education stemming from Elders’ teachings of Indigenous knowledge, cultural values, identity, and vision. Informed by Cree Elders, this qualitative study articulates an Indigenous interpretation of land-based education. Research findings demonstrate that Indigenous land-based education can be used to promote well-being among Indigenous peoples in Canada. While the study is based on the Cree experience in Northern Manitoba, its message is significant to many other Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Drawing on the Elders’ teachings, policy recommendations are generated for advancing Indigenous land-based education

scholarly journals Building Pattern Technique of an Indigenous Community – Does Its Appearances a Distinctive Representation?

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mustafizur Rahman ◽  
Mohammad Tanvir Hasan ◽  
Shahidul Islam ◽  
Jiaul Hassan Mithun
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Construction Techniques

Bangladesh is enriched with beautiful traditional indigenous cultures. Different indigenous peoples with their distinctive existences also considerably create an enhance values and lifestyles to the socio-cultural sectors of Bangladesh [1]. Habitually, these indigenous communities have been comparable to live a large combined family to shear their lifestyles [2]. Presently the country has 45 indigenous communities who are living in different locations. All indigenous people within this country have their own style to build their settlements with special techniques to keep them safe and sound from all types of natural and environmental vulnerabilities and also enhance their knowledge of construction techniques and lifestyle. Rakhain is one of them with very small number of people are still living in different regions within the country which have their own system of building techniques. Study found that for several hundreds of years Rakhains are strictly following their indigenous prescription of house and settlement pattern. Although like other indigenous people of this country, they have mountains of problems, such as forced land occupation, lack of security and minority characteristics. Above all, forced political separation has gradually drowned them in the abysmal pit of marginal destiny. This has turned them into exiles in their own land. As a result, many of them are being forced to leave the country and as a result they misplaced their native knowledge and technique to construct. Thus, this study will initially focus on to search for the distinctiveness of their settlement pattern and building construction techniques and lifestyle. Again, in view of their problems, knowledge and experiences concerning archetype, built and house pattern, this study will finally explain how Rakhains accumulate their every distinctiveness from history and for present and future invention.

scholarly journals Indigenous Peoples, Urbanization Processes, and Interactions with Extraction Firms in Russia's Arctic

Sibirica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Marlene Laruelle
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
Arctic Russia

Russia is unique on the circumpolar landscape in that indigenous communities constitute only a small percentage of its Arctic population. Whereas they represent 80 percent of Greenland’s population, 50 percent of Canada’s, 20 percent of Alaska’s, and 15 percent of Norway’s Arctic regions, they make up less than 5 percent of the population of Arctic Russia. Although indigenous peoples have a more solid demography than Russians and have therefore seen their share of the Arctic population slowly increase over the past two decades, their rights remain fragile. Moscow does not consider the Arctic to have a specific status due to the presence of indigenous peoples, and its reading of the region is still very much shaped by the imperial past, the memory of an easy conquest (osvoenie) of territories deemed “unpopulated,” and the exploitation of the region’s subsoil resources.

scholarly journals Digital Representation of Indigenous Peoples through Sharing, Collaboration, and Negotiation: An Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Gish Hill ◽  
Medeia Csoba DeHass
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Key Issues

In the past decade, digital media have been increasingly employed in museums in a variety of ways. This practice capitalized on the new medium’s effectiveness in connecting a variety of stakeholders across multiple key issues. Projects representing Indigenous communities are not an exception to this trend. This special issue critically reflects on the politics of representation in the process of reframing culturally specific concepts in a digital environment. In addition to discussing potential benefits of digital media to working with Indigenous communities, papers in the special issue also carefully weigh the benefits and shortcomings virtual environments may bring to digital collaborations with Indigenous communities.

scholarly journals INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE SACRED GEOGRAPHY OF ETHNIC TERRITORIES (CASES OF THE SHOR PEOPLE AND THE TOZHU-TUVANS)

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
Алексей Веденин ◽  
Aleksei Vedenin ◽  
Константин Осипов ◽  
Konstantin Osipov
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Special Support ◽  
The World

<p>Preserving the indigenous peoples’ traditional cultures is a problem of current special interest from research and practice perspectives. Indigenous peoples of the world were always largely affected by dominating societies and forced to transform their original cultures, way of life and identity. In this regard, surviving indigenous culture practices require a special support based on the scientifi understanding of their meanings from the point of view of sustainable preservation of ethno-cultural environments. Cult and sacred places, be they natural sites or human-made facilities, remain crucial but quite vulnerable cultural elements of indigenous ethnic groups. They are important spatial objects which preserve indigenous peoples’ culture memory and different ethnic traditions connected with religion, spiritual culture and mythology. This paper summarizes main results of an interdisciplinary research of cult and sacred places used by the Shor people in the Kemerovoregion and the Tozhu-Tuvans in TuvaRepublic(Russian Federation). During their 2015 – 2017 fi the authors identifi a lot of sacred places, revered by indigenous communities, and described them in terms of their signifi as elements of living indigenous cultures. The data obtained in the process of fi allowed the authors to map the sacred places, as well as the main risks and threats associated with them. The latter include: mining activities, infrastructural and tourism facilities, etc. The identifi threats lead both to the destruction of the sacred places as well to extinction of indigenous knowledge.<strong></strong></p>

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