scholarly journals “Awakening the sleeping giant”: re-Indigenization principles for transforming biodiversity conservation in Canada and beyond

FACETS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 839-869
Author(s):  
◽  
Albert Marshall ◽  
Karen F. Beazley ◽  
Jessica Hum ◽  
shalan joudry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Total Reflection ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
Natural Laws ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
Story Listening ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing

Precipitous declines in biodiversity threaten planetary boundaries, requiring transformative changes to conservation. Colonial systems have decimated species and ecosystems and dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of their rights, territories, and livelihoods. Despite these challenges, Indigenous-governed lands retain a large proportion of biodiversity-rich landscapes. Indigenous Peoples have stewarded the land in ways that support people and nature in respectful relationship. Biodiversity conservation and resurgence of Indigenous autonomies are mutually compatible aims. To work towards these aims requires significant transformation in conservation and re-Indigenization. Key to both are systems that value people and nature in all their diversity and relationships. This paper introduces Indigenous principles for re-Indigenizing conservation: ( i) embracing Indigenous worldviews of ecologies and M’sɨt No’kmaq, ( ii) learning from Indigenous languages of the land, ( iii) Natural laws and Netukulimk, ( iv) correct relationships, ( v) total reflection and truth, ( vi) Etuaptmumk—“two-eyed seeing,” and “strong like two people”, and ( vii) “story-telling/story-listening”. Although the principles derive primarily from a Mi’kmaw worldview, many are common to diverse Indigenous ways of knowing. Achieving the massive effort required for biodiversity conservation in Canada will entail transformations in worldviews and ways of thinking and bold, proactive actions, not solely as means but as ongoing imperatives.

Juvenile Fiction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mavis Reimer ◽  
Clare Bradford ◽  
Heather Snell
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Juvenile Fiction

This chapter focuses on the juvenile fiction of the British settler colonies to 1950, and considers how writers both take up forms familiar to them from British literature and revise these forms in the attempt to account for the specific geography, politics, and cultures of their places. It is during this time that the heroics associated with building the empire had taken hold of British cultural and literary imaginations. Repeatedly, the juvenile fiction of settler colonies returns to the question of the relations between settlers and Indigenous inhabitants—sometimes respecting the power of Indigenous knowledge and traditions; often expressing the conviction of natural British superiority to Indigenous ways of knowing and living; always revealing, whether overtly or covertly, the haunting of the stories of settler cultures by the displacement of Indigenous peoples on whose land those cultures are founded.

scholarly journals AN ARTS-BASED CURRICULUM ENCOUNTER: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE ON THIS LAND?

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Conrad ◽  
Patricia Jagger ◽  
Victoria Bleeks ◽  
Sarah Auger
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Class Project ◽  
Family Histories ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing

Our arts-based curriculum encounter occurred in a graduate course on arts-based research methods. For a class project we engaged in an inquiry on the question: “What does it mean to live on this land?” which we explored through various arts-based activities. The question challenged us to think deeply about our relationship with and responsibilities to the land we occupy. The inquiry raised for us and, in various ways, implicated us in issues around geographical settings, historical contexts, colonization and nationhood, relations as/with Indigenous peoples, Indigenous ways of knowing, relations with the natural environment, exploitation of the land, the environmental crisis, and our own family histories and personal journeys. In this paper, we share the reflective writings of four inquiry participants interspersed with some images from our work together.

Obvious but Invisible: Ways of Knowing Health, Environment, and Colonialism in a West Coast Indigenous Community

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-273
Author(s):  
Paige Raibmon
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Slow Violence

AbstractThis paper interrogates the specific workings and stakes of slow violence on Indigenous ground. It argues that despite similarities with other environmental justice struggles, Indigenous ones are fundamentally distinct because of Indigenous peoples' unique relationship to the polluted or damaged entity, to the state, and to capital. It draws from Indigenous studies, history, anthropology, geography, sensory studies, and STS, to present results from research with the Mowachaht Muchalaht First Nation, an Indigenous people on the west coast of British Columbia. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, this community used successive strategies to try to render its knowledge about health, environment, and authority visible to the settler state. Each strategy entailed particular configurations of risk, perceptibility, and uncertainty; each involved translation between epistemologies; and each implicated a distinct subject position for Indigenous peoples vis-à-vis the state. The community's initial anti-colonial, environmental justice campaign attempted to translate local, Indigenous ways of knowing into the epistemologies of environmental science and public health. After this strategy failed, community leaders launched another that leveraged the state's legal epistemology. This second strategy shifted the balance of risk and uncertainty such that state actors felt compelled to act. The community achieved victory, but at a price. Where the first strategy positioned the community as a self-determined, sovereign actor; the second positioned it as a ward of the state. This outcome illustrates the costs that modern states extract from Indigenous peoples who seek remedial action, and more generally, the mechanisms through which the colonial present is (re)produced.

scholarly journals Virtual Aamjiwnaang: Indigenous interactive storytelling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Butet-Roch
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Interactive Storytelling ◽  
The World ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing

Stories shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us. They inform our sense of belonging, and connect us to our past. Stories are our lives. And we are our stories. Given their undeniable weight, we ought to question what their form and content teaches us. Increasingly, stories are shared as interactive digital experiences; a reshaping that impacts their configuration, their reach and their outcome. For Indigenous peoples, who continue to resist the colonial paradigm, digital storytelling can represent a weapon of subtle yet pervasive colonialism or be a tool to talk back. Virtual Aamjiwnaang is an interactive platform that integrates Indigenous storytelling practices in recounting the lived realities of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation online. Inspired by the Two-Eyed Seeing approach, which encourages embracing multiple perspectives, and building on previous digital experiences, Virtual Aamjiwnaang proposes methods for creating digital territories that honour Indigenous ways of knowing.

scholarly journals Indigenous Trans-Systemic Research Approach

2022 ◽  
pp. 107780042110668
Author(s):  
Ranjan Datta
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Systematic Knowledge

Indigenous trans-systemic approach is a lifelong unlearning and relearning process, with no endpoint. Indigenous peoples have long called for decolonizing minds so as to support self-determination, challenge colonial practices, and value Indigenous cultural identity and pride in being Indigenous peoples. Indigenous trans-systemic approach is also a political standpoint toward valuing and revitalizing Indigenous knowledge and methodologies while weeding out colonizer biases or assumptions that have impacted Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, and being. Drawing from Indigenous Participatory Action Research (IPAR), I explained how I learned the meanings of trans-systematic knowledge from Indigenous Elders and Knowledge-keepers.

scholarly journals "The Legacy Will Be the Change": Reconciling How We Live with and Relate to Water

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Lindsay Day ◽  
Ashlee Cunsolo ◽  
Heather Castleden ◽  
Alex Sawatzky ◽  
Debbie Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Be The Change ◽  
Canada Data

Current challenges relating to water governance in Canada are motivating calls for approaches that implement Indigenous and Western knowledge systems together, as well as calls to form equitable partnerships with Indigenous Peoples grounded in respectful Nation-to-Nation relationships. By foregrounding the perspectives of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, this study explores the nature and dimensions of Indigenous ways of knowing around water and examines what the inclusion of Indigenous voices, lived experience, and knowledge mean for water policy and research. Data were collected during a National Water Gathering that brought together 32 Indigenous and non-Indigenous water experts, researchers, and knowledge holders from across Canada. Data were analyzed thematically through a collaborative podcasting methodology, which also contributed to an audio-documentary podcast (www.WaterDialogues.ca).

scholarly journals Virtual Aamjiwnaang: Indigenous interactive storytelling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Butet-Roch
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Interactive Storytelling ◽  
The World ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing

Stories shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us. They inform our sense of belonging, and connect us to our past. Stories are our lives. And we are our stories. Given their undeniable weight, we ought to question what their form and content teaches us. Increasingly, stories are shared as interactive digital experiences; a reshaping that impacts their configuration, their reach and their outcome. For Indigenous peoples, who continue to resist the colonial paradigm, digital storytelling can represent a weapon of subtle yet pervasive colonialism or be a tool to talk back. Virtual Aamjiwnaang is an interactive platform that integrates Indigenous storytelling practices in recounting the lived realities of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation online. Inspired by the Two-Eyed Seeing approach, which encourages embracing multiple perspectives, and building on previous digital experiences, Virtual Aamjiwnaang proposes methods for creating digital territories that honour Indigenous ways of knowing.

scholarly journals Walking Many Paths, Our Research Journey to (Re)present Multiple Knowings

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-182
Author(s):  
Melitta Hogarth ◽  
Kori Czuy
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Indigenous Knowledges ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Indigenous Voices

Indigenous peoples globally are seeking new ways in which to communicate and share our worldviews.  Sometimes defined as resistance research, emancipatory research, decolonising research - our research (re)presents the multiple journeys in which we live and come to know. Emerging Indigenous research methodological approaches are centring Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, to privilege Indigenous voices that have been suppressed through colonization.  The intricate weaving of Western methodologies with Indigenous knowledges evokes agency in two emerging Indigenous researchers (from Australia and Canada) and weaves a path of reconciliation between their diverse disciplines as well as the seemingly dichotomous knowledge systems they are challenged to work within. Using metalogue, a way of authentically bringing together multiple voices through dialogue, we discuss the creative and radical Indigenous methodological approaches developed and enacted within our PhDs.  The paper will provide insights to the epistemological, ontological and axiological principles that inform emerging Indigenous approaches to research.  

scholarly journals Diverse Complexities, Complex Diversities

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-481
Author(s):  
Jenny Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Economic Disparities ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing

This paper highlights considerations for critical qualitative researchers in relation to the need to enact methodologies that are contextually responsive. It outlines a range of intersecting complexities that emerge from a critical reading of the context for research in Aotearoa (New Zealand), which include histories of colonisation of Indigenous peoples, increasing cultural diversity likely to be futher impacted by migration from Pacific Islands to Aotearoa because of the climate change crisis, and increasing economic disparities between rich and poor. It then draws upon scholarship by Māori and Pacific Island scholars that identifies alternative methodologies that arise from Indigenous ways of knowing, being, doing, and relating. It concludes with a series of questions that may be informative for researchers as they design methodologies which engage Indigenous and other diverse perspectives and peoples.

scholarly journals Ethnobiology of Northeastern Turtle Island Food & Medicine: Summary of an NSIS Lecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Jonathan Ferrier
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Natural Laws ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
Water Plants ◽  
Indigenous Spirituality

Food, medicine, and material culture are related topics. Securing access requires a respect for the natural laws of the environment. With examples from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (in Ontario), Mi’kmaq First Nation, and global indigenous nations, we observe that indigenous peoples are natural leaders for achieving an ecological balance with our oral stories  that document our traditional observations for millennia. Indigenous spirituality and ecological ways of knowing provide solutions for dealing with climate change, local food, medicine, and material security. With ethnobiology, we awaken native linguistic knowledge, traditions in medicine and foods, and discover designs that were laid dormant by colonization. Native languages and verbal traditions carefully describe a holistic role that applies to the land, while acknowledging all our relationships with water, plants, medicines, fish, flyers and crawlers, emphasizing their importance to all.

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