Rice's Terms Indigenous Studies Exam 2 Flashcards
Cognitive Imperialism
A form of cognitive manipulation used to disclaim other knowledge bases and values
- Denies other people their language and cultural identity by maintaining the legitimacy of only one language, one culture, and one frame of reference.
- Residential schools played a huge roll in cognitive imperialism
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Shock or impact
- Withdrawal repression; warrior regression
- Acceptance; Magical Thinking
- Compliance and anger
- Trauma Mastering Healing
Acceptance; Magical Thinking
- Alcohol is a way to vent/release pent up emotions
- May feel as though things will never change
- Start searching for something new (change)
- Some join church/ceremony; sweat lodge
- Looking for instant solutions
Compliance and anger
Angry because there’s no resolution (not yet found)
Trauma Mastering Healing
- Finding and understanding what affects us
- Affirmation is needed to find solace; that may be spiritual
Three farming sisters
- corn
- beans
- squash
what percentage of food come from/consists of indigenous cultures?
50%
potato
People migrated to America because of famine.
- they only had 1-2 strains, caused them to get wiped out
tomato
- heavily influenced on diet
- no one ate them for the first 100 years
cocoa
- increases sex drive - aphrodisiac
- used maple syrup with it
- chili peppers
- becomes tastier with sugar
maple syrup =
indigenous
vanilla
cranberry
a man from Churchill recently got shot and walked for 50 hours
- had will power
- this is relative to hunting to keep going
- must be very physically fit to survive
in the past there was no substance abuse, it was seen as:
- alcohol is a disease, a sickness
- not just referring to indigenous people
- not a genetic thing
- cultural break down
- marginalize
- can affect your life
- was prevalent in America when European’s came. people were afraid of water and only drank alcohol
- natives were not used to it
use it or lose it
- loss of movement, hunting, and work can cause more unhealthy habits such as substance abuse
equal rights
- all of women’s assets went to men
- women wanted their men to stop drinking
2 spirited person
- very prevalent in indigenous cultures
- 2 spirited person due to residential schools
- beneficial to women’s society
- strength to women’s side in aiding physical things
- born with it, the way the creator made you
- a non-classified gender - no such thing as male
- no gender pro-nouns “it” in Algonquian language is non-existential
- either dead or alive
a non-classified gender
- no such thing as male
- no gender pro-nouns “it” in Algonquian language is non-existential
- either dead or alive