Socio Political Landscape(ORALITY) Flashcards
Orality defniniton
-Verbal Expression of thoughts and ideas in cultures that are mostly or are unfamiliar with literacy
Aboriginal cultures and orality
What are they shifting to
What is different with oral knowledge
-Aboriginal cultures are Oral cultures
-undergoing a shift to literacy
-oral knowledge stored and transmitted differently
Oral Stories
What do they provide guidance on?
What structure do they describe?
How is information fixed?
-Pass on information through stories
-meaningful information ‘fixed’ through narratives in stories
-provide guidance on living well
“markers along the path”
-appropriate relationships with land and living environment
-describes the structures of conciousness found in cultures that use literacy minimally
working with stories is ______, not static
dynamic
the role of elders with oral stories
to pass info to younger generations through stories
Oral Tradition
-Form of human communication where knowledge, art, ideas, and cultural material is recieved, percieved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another through speech or song
How does indigenous language carry original concepts
what results in language erosion?
-language carries the value system and system of human relationships
-Language carries culture and identity
-unique words and phrases keyed to activities and places –> this is why the loss of access to places causes language erosion
Placenames
-tells the history, political significance of an area
-relay cultural information
-useful indicators for ecological change
Examples of placenames
whitefish lake
katlodeh(willowgrass river)
placename mapping research and TLU
TLU - traditional land use
-powerful tool in land rights negotiation
-negates colonial erasure of replacing indigenous names with european ones
Skywoman
what is it about,
what type of story is it about
-oral story
story about:
Governance
Laws
How to survive
How to get along
a creation story
sweetgrass word
wiingaashk, bound at the end and divided into thirds
Turtle island
-referenced in the Skywoman story
-arose in Great Lake region
-all landmasses arose from mud on turtles back
skywoman plot
-Skywoman falls from skyworld
-geese broke her fall above the water
-turtle let her on his back
-muskrat brings back mud, sacrifice
-earth formed from mud on turtle bacj
-skywoman scatters plants–> wiingaashk first to grow
-by scattering plants helps animals
indigenous knowledge is
Multidimentional
what are some different conceptual approaches in indigenous culture
-Energetic nature of reality
-4 aspects of humans
-we are all connected
-animacy of non humans
-importance of sharing
-stewardship
what are the 4 aspects of humans
mind body spirit emotion
our way of life
Gonaowo
Law
How we imagine and manage ourselves both individual and collectively
indigenous law
-building citizen ship, responsibility, and governance
-challenging oppressions
-safety and protection
-lands and resources
and external political relations with other indigenous peoples as well as the state
indigenous legal traditions
-deeply rooted
-historically conditioned attitudes about law and the role of law in society
-the proper organization and operation of a legal system
Ayook
law, custom or prescedent
legal system
state centered legal system in which law is managed by professionals
5 sources of law
Sacred law
deliberative law
natural
customs
positive
Sacred Law
creator and treaty rights
deliberative law
talking circles, discussion
natural law
relationship with natural world, environment
customs law
marriages, family relations, land claim agreements
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positive
basically just like regulations, codes
indigenous law enacted in
formal publicc places
potlatch
when were they outlawed and by what
-means “giveaway”
-ceremonies where people do giveaways and show stewardship eachother and to the land
-outlawed 1880 by indian act and artifacts confiscated
-held underground until 1950s when unreferenced from indian act
