exam lecture review Flashcards
1
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STORIES AS THEORIES
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- Reviews what indig study’s is
- Looks at trickster stories
2
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LAW OF THE
PEOPLE
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- Looks at trickster storys
- How tricksters are seen as heroes
- Stories acted out kinship
- Stories function as legal traditions
- Stories prevented incest
3
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HEATH AND HEALING
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- Indig ppl rank very low for overall Canadian health
- Health issues= result of colonization via laws and slurs
- The amount of incarcerated indig
- Lower education rate
4
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Spirituality and activism
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- Handsome lake
- History of famous indig figures
- The ghost dance
- The Wounded knee massacre: result of ghost dance and Indian affairs to end it.
- Indig taking over the Alcatraz jail island: bc it was government owned land that was unoccupied, it was indig right to take it over.
- The trail of broken treaties
- Idle No More: government exploitation on indig land
5
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Spirituality in urban context
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- Neil Stonechild
- Internalized racism of being a more authentic indig
6
Q
Indig women WWA
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- Dr. Savage Bear
- The portray of indig women via Pocahontas & costumes
7
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Spirituality and sexual gender
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- How queer and 2 spirt has been apart of indig culture
- Questions challenging how it has been apart of culture prior to colonization
- Using documents that lack
- The use of the word ‘hermaphrodites’
- There were no genders pre-contact indig
- A third gender
8
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Indig men and spirituality
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- Indig masculinity
- To look at male dysfunctional behaviour caused by internalization of masculine traits via white supremacist heteronormative patriarchy
- Goal: to erase women and a queer ppl
- Concern of indig men causes violence to indig women
- Highest rate: indig men being killed
- Men becoming fire keepers
- Moose hide campaign: indig men fast for a day to stand against the violence women and kids endure. Also to change the future path of men for their sons.
