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...Michiel Leezenberg This contribution explores in what ways the Kurdish experience may be called “colonial” and, by extension, what decolonizing Kurdish studies would or could amount to. Specifically, it explores whether and to what extent Kurdish vernacular learning may be qualified as “Indigenous...

... and political activism, we are witnesses to teaching and learning methods that seek to engage Indigenous youth not for the purpose of radicalizing them but, rather, to prepare them to honor a long history of asserting rights and fulfilling responsibilities, as these responsibilities are associated with legacies...

... it is unfortunately our own Indigenous languages. Mokasige Fortunately, Kitigan Zibi has an immersion program (Mokasige) at the com- munity school. Students can spend half of the day everyday learning, speak- ing, writing, and hearing Anishinabemowin. I can personally attest to the value of this program, since my...

.... Another is that I am obliged to trace the protago- Stranger Danger  57 nist’s learning—his deepening indigenous knowledge—only in tracing the mechanisms and extent of my own exclusion from that knowledge. This skirting around the borders...

... (authority, responsibility, privilege), particularly in relation to land and learning. 6 The phrase “fragile fictions” comes from Fujikane’s forthcoming book, Mapping Abun- dance: Indigenous and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi, which will include some of her analysis...

..., due to colonization and oppressive policies designed to destroy Indigenous identity, culture, and history, Indigenous knowledge and governing systems have been put in jeopardy. Colonial policies intended to dispossess and oppress First Nations by depriving us from Indigenous lands, controlling all...

...Lisa Guenther The 2022 Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, Canada, raises questions about the meaning and tactics of decolonial abolition. To call for the police of a colonial state to crack down on unruly settlers on stolen Indigenous land is both hypocritical and ineffective. And yet, it isn't clear how...

...- guistic and cultural methods of teaching and learning. However, Indige- nous ways of knowing and learning, which are essential parts of the right to cultural integrity, are advanced through other norms as well. This includes the right of Indigenous pupils to be placed on an equal footing with non...

...Christine Black This essay is a nonlinear narrative that attempts to “unthink” the ways in which Australian Indigenous peoples' identity, sovereignty, and law are discussed. An Australian Aboriginal law narrative and poetry are part of the unthinking language used to discuss these definitions...

... Bogus .” iPolitics , August 30 . ipolitics.ca/2017/08/30/those-trans-mountain-employment-numbers-theyre--bogus/ . Elliot Alicia . 2018 . “ A Memo to Canada: Indigenous People Are Not Your Incompetent Children .” Globe and Mail . January 5 . theglobeandmail.com/opinion...

... it be for prayer or a birthday hot dog roast. Learning about the park and the ways it came about as I ve grown older has only solidified the tensions I see when Indigenous communities are pressured to fit themselves to colonial sys- tems to protect what they have left from further exploitation. While I am thankful...

..., geological proponents of the Anthropocene, the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, and the indigenous members of the Karrabing Film Collective. The essay asks, even as anthropogenic climate change and toxicity have created revolutionary ethical, political, and conceptual problems and antagonisms, what...

... and the “rebel we,” by learning to see ourselves through our own history and indigenous present. We must also learn to see indigenous allies, via their struggle for a plurinational state and the right to territory, as a starting point from which Denis • Birth of an “Other...

... as knowledge generated through academic learning (Brown, Brown, and Biodiversity BC 2009: foreword). Within this sustainable management paradigm the Heiltsuk economy also included trade with other Indigenous communities (Harris 2000). Heiltsuk commerce involved herring spawn on kelp but the desire for trade...

... admin- istrators, utility operators, engineers, architects, city planners, those working in oil and related industries, and the general citizenry demanding more from their leaders must learn from climate youth activists and Indigenous peo- ples and communities how to forge solidarities, and how to step...

...Shiri Pasternak The history of colonialism in Canada has meant both the partition of Indigenous peoples from participating (physically, politically, legally) in the economy and a relentless demand to become assimilated as liberal capitalist citizens. Assimilation and segregation are both tendencies...

...Diveena S. Marcus Indigenous communities in North America are either confined in remote areas of arid and undesirable living environments or scattered amid the dominant non-Indigenous colonial atmosphere. The former are distant and removed from the public's gaze and the latter have long been active...

... of capitalism's imagination. The essay then turns to Indigenous philosophies and practices of the communal to propose an answer to the question of poverty. Examples of the former are found in such thinkers as Taiaiake Alfred (Mohawk) and Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna). Examples of the latter are found...

... of the technical expertise learned in art classes and the rigorous experimenta- tion with indigenous art forms that Okeke referred to as natural synthesis. The idea of synthesis at the historical moment in which Okeke and his colleagues found themselves is predicated on the perception of a funda- mental...

... show, it is precisely through this ordering that structural violence can be maintained, but also disordered through what Fanon (1968: 40) called surges into forbidden quarters. In the pieces that follow, the ordering of Indigenous lands into parks, flooded reservoirs, and French-speaking provinces...