scholarly journals “I Wish to be Free of All Things I Am Not and Will Never Be”: Reorientation of Self Through the (re)Framing of (post)Colonial Consciousness in Marie Clements’ The Edward Curtis Project.

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed P. Alkubaisy
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Direct Response ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
Static Group ◽  
Object Dynamics ◽  
Aboriginal Literature

The works of Edward Curtis are weighty historical records considered as seminal projects that have been the international communities main representations of Aboriginal cultures and their peoples. However, Curtis' projects, as ethno-anthropological work, limit the avenues of representation afforded to Aboriginal peoples; through attempting to preserve an image of authenticity, Curtis' work entraps and filters the multifaceted compontents of Aboriginal culture(s) into a homogenous static group through a colonial lens. In opposition to these colonial standards, contemporary aboriginal literature attempts to carve a path in which Aboriginal people are represented in their own dynamic cultures and identities; the dramatic work of Marie Clements, The Edward Curtis Project, acts as a direct response to the work of Edward Curtis as it (re)frames and problematizes discourse regarding (re)presentation, (post)colonial conscioussness, and the (re)positioning of subject/object dynamics.

Aboriginalia: Souvenir Wares and the ‘Aboriginalization’ of Australian Identity

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Aboriginal Culture

In recent years Aboriginalia, defined here as souvenir objects depicting Aboriginal peoples, symbolism and motifs from the 1940s—1970s and sold largely to tourists in the first instance, has become highly sought after by both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal collectors and has captured the imagination of Aboriginal artists and cultural commentators. The paper seeks to understand how and why Aboriginality came to brand Australia and almost every tourist place and centre at a time when Aboriginal people and culture were subject to policies (particularly the White Australia Polic(ies)) that effectively removed them from their homelands and sought in various ways to assimilate them (physiologically and culturally) into mainstream white Australian culture. In addition the paper suggests that this Aboriginalia had an unintended social life as an object of tourism and nation. It is argued that the mass-produced presence of many reminders of Aboriginal culture came to be ‘repositories of recognition’ not only of the presence of Aborigines but also of their dispossession and repression. As such they emerge today recoded as politically and culturally charged objects with (potentially) an even more radical role to play in the unfolding of race relations in Australia.

scholarly journals DAS NARRATIVAS DO CINECLUBE EM CÁCERES ÀS NARRATIVAS DA ESCOLA INDÍGENA LUTUMA DIAS: a educação escolar indígena diferenciada

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Naine Terena De Jesus ◽  
Maritza Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
School Education ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
Didactic Material ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

 Este artigo foi produzido no âmbito do Projeto Cineclubes - Cinema, infâncias e diferenças, realizado pelo Ateliê de Imagem e educação, do Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação da UNEMAT - MT. As narrativas acerca dos povos indígenas do Brasil, apresentadas por professores participantes do Cineclube, movimentaram o pensamento das autoras para a releitura da tese de doutorado Audiovisual na Escola Terena Lutuma Dias: educação indígena diferenciada e as mídias, cujo foco era a problematização sobre a educação escolar indígena e o uso do audiovisual, em especial, para o ensino da cultura indígena e principalmente se este seria um material didático capaz de contemplar as necessidades pedagógicas dos professores Terena, frente aos recursos como livros e cartilhas que estão atualmente disponíveis na escola indígena. Revisitar a tese e trazer tais informações a este artigo, se deu devido ao fato das narrativas do Cineclube se tornarem personagens conceituais para se pautar a educação escolar indígena visando enriquecer o conhecimento do leitor acerca de diferentes contextos e realidades da educação no país. Palavras-chave: Educação indígena. Interculturalidade. Tic. Infância. Indígenas.OF THE NARRATIVES OF THE CINECLUBE IN CÁCERES TO THE NARRATIVES OF THE ABORIGINAL SCHOOL LUTUMA DIAS: the differentiated aboriginal pertaining to school education Abstract: This article was produced in the scope of the participation of the authors in the Cineclubes Project - Cinema, infancies and differences, carried through for the Ateliê de Imagem and education, of the Program of After-graduation in Education of the UNEMAT - MT. The narratives concerning the aboriginal peoples of Brazil, presented for participant professors of the Cineclube, had put into motion the thought of the author for the releitura of the thesis of doutorado Audiovisual in the School Terena Lutuma Dias: aboriginal education differentiated and the medias, taking it to revisit it the problematização on the aboriginal pertaining to school education and the use of the audiovisual, in special, for the education of the aboriginal culture and mainly if this would be a didactic material capable to contemplate the pedagogical necessities of Terena professors, front to the resources as books and cartilhas that they are currently available in the aboriginal school. To revisit the thesis and to bring such information to this article, if gave due to the fact of the narratives of the Cineclube if to become conceptual personages to pautar the aboriginal pertaining to school education aiming at to enrich the knowledge of the reader concerning different contexts and realities of the education in the country.Keyworks: Aboriginal education. Interculturalidade. Tic. Infancy. Aboriginals. LAS NARRATIVAS DE CINECLUBE EN CÁCERES Y NARRATIVAS DE LA ESCUELA INDÍGENA LUTUMA DIAS: una educación escolar indígena diferenciadaResumen: Este artículo no ha sido reproducido en ningún momento de la participación de las autoras en el Proyecto Cineclubes - Cine, infancias e diferencias, realizado por Ateliê de Imagem y educación, Programa de Pós-graduación en Educación de UNEMAT - MT. Como narrativas acerca de los dos indígenas indígenas del Brasil, las presentaciones de los profesores participantes del Cineclube, movimentaron el pensamiento de la autora para una relevación de las enseñanzas de los medios de comunicación audiovisual en la escuela Terena Lutuma Dias: educación indígena diferenciada y como mídias, A educação escolar indígena y el uso del audiovisual, en especial, para el aprendizaje de la cultura indígena y principalmente en el este material seria didático capaz de contemplar como necesidades pedagógicas de los profesores Terena, . Revisar el texto de este artículo, se ha dado por el hecho de las narraciones de Cineclube, se convertirá en personajes conceptuales para el aprendizaje de la educación en el país.Palabras clave: Educación indígena. Interculturalidade. Tic. Infância. Indígenas.                                

scholarly journals Old Keyam – A Framework for Examining Disproportionate Experience of Tuberculosis Among Aboriginal Peoples of the Canadian Prairies

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Kathleen McMullin ◽  
Sylvia Abonyi ◽  
Maria Mayan ◽  
Pamela Orr ◽  
Carmen Lopez-Hille ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Canadian Prairies ◽  
Tuberculosis Transmission ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

On the Canadian Prairies, First Nations and Métis peoples are disproportionately affected by tuberculosis (TB) compared to other Canadians. Statistics show enduring transmission and high rates of active TB disease. Despite awareness of the social determinants of TB transmission—such as substance abuse, comorbidities, and basic needs being unmet—transmission and outbreaks continue to occur among Aboriginal people. The Determinants of Tuberculosis Transmission project is a mixed methods, interdisciplinary study that used quantitative questionnaires and qualitative interviews to look more closely at patients’ experiences of TB. Provincial Network Committees (PNCs) comprised of Elders, traditionalists, community-based TB workers, and health researchers in three participating provinces guided the project from inception through to data analysis, interpretation, and dissemination. The collaborative efforts of the patients, the research team, and the PNCs uncovered a continuing influence of colonization in TB transmission. Overwhelming feelings of apathy and despair for the hold that TB continues to have in the lives of patients, families, and communities is captured by the Cree word “keyam,” which may be translated as “to give up” or to ask, “What is the use?” This paper explores the concept of keyam in relation to TB transmission.

Political Participation of Aboriginal People (Orang Asli) in Peninsular Malaysia: Examining the Compatibility of the Aboriginal Peoples Act 1954 with Undrip Standards

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Muhamad Sayuti Hassan ◽  
Rohaida Nordin
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
International Law ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Orang Asli ◽  
The Right

The main objective of this article is to critically evaluate the compatibility of the ‘right to political participation’ of the Orang Asli by looking at international law standards. The present study utilises a qualitative socio-legal approach, which analyses the political participation of the Orang Asli under Malaysian law and determines whether the Aboriginal Peoples Act 1954 (apa) can provide for the protection, well-being, and the advancement of the Orang Asli. Arguably, the existing provisions of the apa are not in conformity with the recognition in undrip and in no way guarantee the Orang Asli’s right to self-determination as recognised by international law. Thus, the current study recommends an amendment to the apa and introduces guidelines to empower political participation of the Orang Asli by incorporating the principles of undrip. The amendment is necessary to ensure that the protection of the right to self-determination of the Orang Asli is compatible with international law standards.

Burning the Bush: The Development of Australia’s Southwest Botanical Province

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Kost
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Prescribed Burning ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Fire Regime ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
The Past ◽  
Environmental Narratives ◽  
European Colonization ◽  
The Impact

Though early historical records frequently mention Aboriginal, or Noongar, firing in south-western Australia, little is known about how the Noongar people managed the vegetation with fire, or the impact this has had on the environment. This study uses interdisciplinary archaeology, with information from ethnographic data, historical records, and pollen records from the last 6,000 years to determine the actions of the Noongar people and demonstrate how the Southwest Botanical Province can be viewed as an artefact of Noongar land management. It is widely accepted that Aboriginal people have had an effect on some of Australia’s vegetation types through fire (Bowman 1998; Hallam 1975; Kershaw et al. 2002) although the extent of the influence of Aboriginal firing is debated (Mooney et al. 2007). However, pollen data and the study of fire indicators in Xanthorrhoea and Eucalyptus trunks have been used to demonstrate that the frequency of fire events in the south-west has decreased since European colonization (Atahan et al. 2004; Ward et al. 2001), resulting in the loss of fire-dependent vegetation species and changes in vegetation distribution patterns. This disruption of the vegetation communities has been compounded by the extensive clearing of land for farming and the displacement of the Noongar people (Dodson 2001). The impact that European colonization had on vegetation becomes more apparent as an understanding of the Noongar fire management practices is gained. There is increasing acknowledgement by researchers of the need to understand the influence of the past fire regime on vegetation patterns and to acknowledge traditional land management practices (Hopper and Gioia 2004), as well as the changes caused by European attempts to create a ‘natural’ regime, so that land management groups can take them into account when determining modern-day prescribed burning timetables. Archaeological studies such as this one can provide a unique insight into the past actions of people such as the Noongar, allowing us to determine how they shaped the landscape prior to European colonization (see Balée, Chapter 3 this volume for a more direct discussion of the ‘indigenous’ nature of pre-colonial landscapes; see Stump, Chapter 10 this volume for similar discussions of colonial and postcolonial environmental narratives).

scholarly journals History-based Explanatory Framework for Procreative Behaviour of Aboriginal People of Canada

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Anatole Romaniuk
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Explanatory Framework ◽  
Real Population ◽  
Theoretical Investigations ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The One ◽  
Challenging Question

The transition from traditional high to modern low fertility is in the forefront of empirical and theoretical investigations in contemporary aboriginal demography. The challenging question therein remains why its fertility has started to decline a century or so after the rest of Canada, and why it continues to trail the latter by a considerable lag. The objective of this paper is to present a history-based explanatory framework of the childbearing behaviour of Canadian aboriginal peoples, as it has evolved over time from the very first contact with Europeans to our day. Turning to existing theories for possible elucidation of these idiosyncrasies, we find that while accounting for certain aspects, they leave others unexplained. History provides a more satisfying explanation when we cast an eye not on the “abstract” population, “ideal-type” or what we today like to call “model”, but on real population, or family thereof, in its spatio-temporal context. The “between-two-cultures” paradigm presented here, based on ethnocentricity and dependency, could be seen as a an explanatory paradigm of competing forces on the Canadian aboriginals: on the one hand, those pushing toward modern norms of childbearing; and on the other, traditional values and structures, as shattered as they are, with their pro-natalist ideologies resisting normative changes.

scholarly journals Astronomical Heritage and Aboriginal People: Conflicts and Possibilities

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (A29A) ◽  
pp. 142-145
Author(s):  
Alejandro Martín López
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
International Scientific Community ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Global System ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Professional Artists ◽  
Aboriginal Groups

AbstractIn this presentation we address issues relating to the astronomical heritage of contemporary aboriginal groups and other minorities. We deal specially with intangible astronomical heritage and its particularities. Also, we study (from ethnographic experience with Aboriginal groups, Creoles and Europeans in the Argentine Chaco) the conflicts referring to the different ways in which the natives' knowledge and practice are categorized by the natives themselves, by scientists, state politicians, professional artists and NGOs. Furthermore, we address several cases that illustrate these kinds of conflicts. We aim to analyze the complexities of patrimonial policies when they are applied to practices and representations of contemporary communities involved in power relations with national states and the global system. The essentialization of identities, the folklorization of representations and practices, and the fossilization of aboriginal peoples are some of the risks of applying the label “cultural heritage” without a careful consideration of each specific case.In particular we suggest possible ways in which the international scientific community could collaborate to improve the agenda of national states instead of reproducing colonial prejudices. In this way, we aim to contribute to the promotion of respect for ethnic and religious minorities.

scholarly journals Stand Up for the Burrup: Saving the Largest Aboriginal Rock Art Precinct in Australia

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 92-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

The Dampier Rock Art Precinct contains the largest and most ancient collection of Aboriginal rock art in Australia. The cultural landscape created by generations of Aboriginal people includes images of long-extinct fauna and demonstrates the response of peoples to a changing climate over thousands of years as well as the continuity of lived experience. Despite Australian national heritage listing in 2007, this cultural landscape continues to be threatened by industrial development. Rock art on the eastern side of the archipelago, on the Burrup Peninsula, was relocated following the discovery of adjacent off-shore gas reserves so that a major gas plant could be constructed. Work has now begun on the construction of a second major gas plant nearby. This article describes the rock art of the Dampier Archipelago and the troubled history of European-Aboriginal contact history, before examining the impact of industry on the region and its environment. The destruction of Aboriginal rock art to meet the needs of industry is an example of continuing indifference to Aboriginal culture. While the complex struggle to protect the cultural landscape of the Burrup, in particular, involving Indigenous people, archaeologists, historians, state and federal politicians, government bureaucrats and multi-national companies, eventually led to national heritage listing, it is not clear that the battle to save the Burrup has been won.

Voices Still to be Heard

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Gool ◽  
Wendy Patton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Torres Strait Islander People ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
Queensland Health ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
Cape York

In a climate of self-determination it is essential to clarify what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people themselves feel about their cultural identity and future. These voices exist in a context of the great potential in Aboriginal culture and by contrast the severe problems which Aboriginal people face.Lippman (1994) argues that, although there is some evidence of Aboriginal status becoming more equitable, education being one instance to avail self-determination, data continue to reveal that Aboriginal mortality and morbidity rates lie in stark contrast to those of the general population of Australia. The death rate for Aboriginal men and women of 35 to 44 years is eight times higher than for the average non-Aboriginal (Ferrari, 1997). Queensland Health (1996) recently reported that Cape York has yet to experience the mortality gains seen by Indigenous populations in New Zealand and North America.

scholarly journals Who is Aboriginal? Variability in Aboriginal Identification between the Census and the APS in 2006 and 2012

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Durand ◽  
Yves-Emmanuel Massé-François ◽  
Michael Smith ◽  
Luis Patricio Pena Ibarra
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Canadian Data ◽  
Aboriginal Populations ◽  
Long Form ◽  
National Household Survey ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
Do So

Over the last 50 years, censuses have shown very substantial increases in the estimated sizes of Aboriginal populations in settler states such as Canada. Since these increases cannot be explained by demographic factors alone, authors have proposed that, as the situation of Aboriginal people has been under increasing public scrutiny, it has become more socially acceptable to report that one is Aboriginal. This may be an explanation for increases between censuses that are conducted five or ten years apart, but is such an explanation plausible when comparing answers provided within six months of one another? This article explores the factors associated with short-term fluidity in Aboriginal identification. In order to do so, it uses Canadian data collected twice from among the same members of the defined “population of Aboriginal identity” over a six-month period, in 2006 and in 2011–2012. Close to a third of all Canadians who “identified” as Aboriginals in the Census long form or in the National Household Survey (NHS) changed their answers when asked the same question in the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS). Fluidity in identification depends on methodological factors such as mode of administration and question wording. It also depends on individual and contextual factors. Socioeconomic status and residence in an urban area or in specific regions of Canada are the main factors that differentiate the three groups analyzed here—the Fluid Indian/Métis, the New Métis and the New Indians—from the group that has a stable identification. In light of this finding, we think that statistics produced on Aboriginal peoples in Canada from the standard sources should be treated with some caution. Using the APS identification numbers, for example, instead of those of the Census/NHS would likely reduce the estimated differences between “non-Aboriginals” and “Aboriginals,” at least in terms of education. 

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