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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Foucauldian Lens of Power Decolonized 2. A Postcolonial Appr... more Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Foucauldian Lens of Power Decolonized 2. A Postcolonial Approach to Indigenous Filmmaking in North America 3. Oral Tradition as Reflected in Film Connections Between Oral Tradition and Film 4. Short Films 5. Dramatic Films Conclusion Works Cited Filmography Internet Sources Appendix Index

Journal of American Studies, Dec 1, 2003

Page 1. Reviews Journal of American Studies, 37 (2003), 3. DOI: 10.1017/S0021875803217187 T. Alex... more Page 1. Reviews Journal of American Studies, 37 (2003), 3. DOI: 10.1017/S0021875803217187 T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, The State, and American Citizenship (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002, £30.95). Pp. 306. ...

Contradiction studies, 2023

Duke University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2023

Duke University Press eBooks, Mar 10, 2023

Decolonizing the Lens of Power, 2008

Zeitschrift für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Journal, 2016

Introduction to the curated issue of Postcolonial Interventions on Postcolonial Knowledges

Handbook of the American Short Story

The Canadian journal of native studies, 2007

/ Resume This paper takes the 25th anniversary of the Canadian Constitution of 1982 as a starting... more / Resume This paper takes the 25th anniversary of the Canadian Constitution of 1982 as a starting point to discuss its meaning and consequences for Aboriginal people in Canada. This discussion leads to a review of the land claim settlement process, encouraged by the Constitution Act, pending land claims, and Aboriginal protest against appropriation of contested lands. The paper furthermore looks at the media coverage of this protest that was often biased and created and/or reinforced the image of the 'terrorist warrior.' In a second part, the paper examines how these issues are contextualized in four texts by Canadian Aboriginal writers: Jeannette Armstrong's Slash, Lee Maracle's Sundogs, Jordan Wheeler's "Red Waves," and Richard Wagamese's A Quality of Light. These texts make clear that Aboriginal protest is related to the issue of the dispossession of Aboriginal land, and ensuing violence to the state's reaction to such protest which became sl...

Preface and Acknowledgements -- Kerstin Knopf Introduction: Aboriginal Canada Revisited -- Kersti... more Preface and Acknowledgements -- Kerstin Knopf Introduction: Aboriginal Canada Revisited -- Kerstin Knopf I. HEALTH, SOCIAL ISSUES, POLITICS De-colonizing Canadian Aboriginal Health and Social Services from the Inside Out: A Case Study - The Ahousaht Holistic Society -- Marlene R. Atleo The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada: A Case Study of Aboriginal Health -- Falko Brede The Nisga'a Common Bowl in Tradition and Politics -- Mansell Griffin and Antino Spanjer II. EDUCATION Metis Scholarship in the 21st Century: Life on the Periphery -- Tricia Logan Responding to the Needs of Post-secondary Aboriginal Education: The Development of the Indigenous Leadership and Community Development Program -- Barbara Walberg III. IMAGINING AND IMAGING THE 'INDIAN' The Imaginary Indian in German Children's Non-Fiction Literature -- Genevieve Susemihl The Art of Exclusion: The Status of Aboriginal Art in the McMichael Canadian Art Collection -- Siobhan N. Smith IV. LITERA...

Transcultural English Studies

Decolonizing the Lens of Power

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

These words, part of a letter by Anna Lee Rain Yellow Hammer to the Army Corps of Engineers in Se... more These words, part of a letter by Anna Lee Rain Yellow Hammer to the Army Corps of Engineers in September 2016, asking to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, have become the signature phrase of the #NODAPL protests of Standing Rock Sioux and Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies from across North America. Not only does the phrase firmly imprint Sioux words into public discourses, manifesting linguistic diversity in the face of monolithic English, but the simple phrase expresses basic Indigenous understandings of being in the world: a world view that foregrounds interconnectivity and relationality between human beings and their surroundings in both physical and supernatural worlds, an understanding that humans are made of land and water as physical manifestations of interconnected never-ending processes that produce life. Jeannette Armstrong explains that in the Okanagan [Syilx] world view, human beings are “intricately woven into the very fabric of the life force of the land” (Armstrong 2007, 31). This is demonstrated with the Syilx word for ‘land’ – ‘tmxwulaxw,’ translated as “from nothing, the life force spreading outward” “in many individual strands,” “here in continuous cycles”; these strands – one of them humans – “are continuously being bound with others to form one strong thread coiling year after year into the future as the life force of the land” (Armstrong 2007, 30–31). “The tmixw [life force of the land] are Chiefs [‘people’ in animal and plant forms],” she explains further, and have the duty to continue coiling the strands and making sure the survival of humans (Armstrong 2009, 158; original emphasis). Human bodies consist to 60–70% of water, and a continual water input is necessary for survival; it is processed and emitted again in a continuous water processing system that connects humans and their surroundings. Water keeps us alive – a fact that is of

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