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INTEGRATING INDIGENOUS DECOLONIZATION PHILOSOPHY INTO EDUCATION & RESEARCH Larry Emerson, Din Nation (New Mexico) For Institute for Circumpolar Health Research Conference, Yellowknife, NT November 2009 Goals for talk Promises to

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INTEGRATING INDIGENOUS DECOLONIZATION PHILOSOPHY INTO EDUCATION & RESEARCH

Larry Emerson, Diné Nation (New Mexico) For Institute for Circumpolar Health Research Conference, Yellowknife, NT November 2009

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Goals for talk…

  • Promises to our communities
  • Dynamics of tension, conflict and

contradiction in our communities

  • Merging Native traditional knowledge,

decolonization theory & practice, and Indigenous-centered research

  • Cultural self-determination, meaningful

change, emancipation

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Promises to our communities

  • That we restore and regenerate a sense of

healthy well being for all

  • That wholistic understanding of life leads to

happiness, balance & reawakening of all

– Economics, politics, and socialization are only fragments of life & living – Dimensions are spiritual, moral, cultural, economic, political – Not just materialistic, but non-violent and liberatory

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Conflict, tension & contradiction dynamics

Oppressed Oppressor

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Humanization Dehumanization

Conflict, tension & contradiction dynamics

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Natured De-natured Conflict, tension & contradiction dynamics

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Colonialized Decolonialized

Conflict, tension & contradiction dynamics

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Trauma Wellness

Conflict, tension & contradiction dynamics

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Traditional Modern

Conflict, tension & contradiction dynamics

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Indigenous Western

Conflict, tension & contradiction dynamics

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Traditional Knowledge Decolonization Indigenous research

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Traditional knowledge

  • …Like a footprint in the

sand, but not reducible to that footprint

  • The last is the first…
  • What you need to know, you

cannot find in a book.

  • Eternal return
  • Science of the relationship

between the physical and the metaphysical

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“Decolonization

is about centering our

  • wn concerns and

worldviews and then coming to know theory and research from our own perspectives and for

  • ur own purposes.”

Linda Tuhuwai Smith, 1999

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INDIGENOUS- CENTERED RESEARCH

  • TAKING BACK OUR LEARNING
  • ASKING OUR OWN QUESTIONS
  • INITIATING OUR OWN RESEARCH
  • DESIGNING OUR OWN METHODS OF

INQUIRY

  • DESCRIBING OUR OWN REALITIES
  • MAKING OUR LANGUAGES AND

WORLDVIEW THE CENTER OF OUR INQUIRY

  • TAKING ACTION ON OUR OWN

RESEARCH

  • DEFINING OUR DESTINY

Art by Edgar Heap of Birds 2008

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Cultural self-determination

  • Reframing
  • Restoration &

regeneration

  • Naming
  • Claiming
  • Democratizing
  • Indigenizing
  • Testifying
  • Connecting
  • Telling our stories
  • Genderizing
  • Envisioning
  • Creating
  • Protecting
  • Negotiating
  • Sharing
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WAYS OF KNOWING & BEING

PEDAGOGY – Teaching & Learning EPISTEMOLOGY – How I know what I know.

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Contact information

  • Larry Emerson
  • emerson714@gmail.com
  • 505 368-3904