Monday, October 3, 2011
new book: Kaandossiwin: How we come to Know
kia ora all
Kathy Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe) has published her doctoral thesis into a book called Kaandossiwin: How we come to know. This is a great resource depicting Indigenous/Aboriginal research methods and methodologies as well as a role model for using Native art in the design of one's research.
Go to www.fernwoodpublishing.ca to find out more.
Awesome read, Taima
Friday, September 2, 2011
New Book by Dr Cyndy Baskin
Kia ora, another new book out: Strong Helpers’ Teachings: The Value of Indigenous Knowledges in the Helping Professions by Dr Cyndy Baskin. Looks great, Taima
This book discusses values and knowledges that are common to Indigenous peoples globally and applies them to contemporary helping practice, offering concrete examples of how they can be of assistance to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous helping professionals.
This book provides enrichment for the helping practices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, practitioners, and scholars in the human services. All those in the helping professions are challenged to share these important Indigenous teachings without specific practices being appropriated.
“Baskin takes up this challenge and begins from a positive place, founding her text on the premise that Indigenous knowledges have relevance for all. Her text offers, to scholars and practitioners of the helping professions, a number of comfortable starting points to begin wading into the depth, power, and utility of Indigenous approaches to helping self, families, and communities.”
— Jean-Paul Restoule, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, OISE/UT
CYNDY BASKIN, Mi’kmaq and Celtic Nations, is Associate Professor of Social Work at RyersonUniversity in Toronto and an active and energetic teacher, researcher, and community builder both in Canada and internationally. She has written widely on these and other topics.
This book discusses values and knowledges that are common to Indigenous peoples globally and applies them to contemporary helping practice, offering concrete examples of how they can be of assistance to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous helping professionals.
This book provides enrichment for the helping practices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, practitioners, and scholars in the human services. All those in the helping professions are challenged to share these important Indigenous teachings without specific practices being appropriated.
“Baskin takes up this challenge and begins from a positive place, founding her text on the premise that Indigenous knowledges have relevance for all. Her text offers, to scholars and practitioners of the helping professions, a number of comfortable starting points to begin wading into the depth, power, and utility of Indigenous approaches to helping self, families, and communities.”
— Jean-Paul Restoule, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, OISE/UT
CYNDY BASKIN, Mi’kmaq and Celtic Nations, is Associate Professor of Social Work at RyersonUniversity in Toronto and an active and energetic teacher, researcher, and community builder both in Canada and internationally. She has written widely on these and other topics.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Book: Queer Indigenous Studies
Kia ora, this new book was recently released called Queer Indigenous Studies. Taima
UBC Press is pleased to announce Queer Indigenous Studies edited by
Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen from our publishing partner, The Univeristy Of Arizona Press.
Queer Indigenous Studies
Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature
Qwo-Li Driskell, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen (eds.)
About the Book
“This book is an imagining.” So begins this collection examining critical, Indigenous-centered approaches to understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) lives and communities and the creative implications of queer theory in Native studies. This book is not so much a manifesto as it is a dialogue—a “writing in conversation”—among a luminous group of scholar-activists revisiting the history of gay and lesbian studies in Indigenous communities while forging a path for Indigenous-centered theories and methodologies.
The bold opening to Queer Indigenous Studies invites new dialogues in Native American and Indigenous studies about the directions and implications of queer Indigenous studies. The collection notably engages Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements as alliances that also call for allies beyond their bounds, which the co-editors and contributors model by crossing their varied identities, including Native, trans, straight, non-Native, feminist, Two-Spirit, mixed blood, and queer, to name just a few.
Rooted in the Indigenous Americas and the Pacific, and drawing on disciplines ranging from literature to anthropology, contributors to Queer Indigenous Studies call Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements and allies to center an analysis that critiques the relationship between colonialism and heteropatriarchy. By answering critical turns in Indigenous scholarship that center Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies, contributors join in reshaping Native studies, queer studies, transgender studies, and Indigenous feminisms.
Based on the reality that queer Indigenous people “experience multilayered oppression that profoundly impacts our safety, health, and survival,” this book is at once an imagining and an invitation to the reader to join in the discussion of decolonizing queer Indigenous research and theory and, by doing so, to partake in allied resistance working toward positive change.
About the Editors
Qwo-Li Driskill is a Cherokee Queer/Two-Spirit writer, scholar, and performer. S/he is the author of Walking with Ghosts: Poems and is currently and assistant professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University.
Chris Finley is a queer Native feminist finishing her PhD in American culture at the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes located in Washington State.
Brian Joseph Gilley is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the First Nations Education and Culture Center at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country.
Scott Lauria Morgensen is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University. His work as a white queer critic of settler colonialism appears in his book Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization.
Contents
Introduction 1
Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen
Section I: Performing Queer Indigenous Critiques
1 Decolonizing the Queer Native Body (and Recovering the Native Bull-Dyke): Bringing “Sexy Back” and Out of Native Studies’ Closet 29
Chris Finley
2 Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism 43
Andrea Smith
3 A Queer Caste: Mixing Race and Sexuality in Colonial New Zealand 66
Michelle Erai
4 Fa’afafine Notes: On Tagaloa, Jesus, and Nafanua 81
Dan Taulapapa McMullin
Section II: Situating Two-Spirit and Queer Indigenous Movements
5 (Asegi Ayetl): Cherokee Two-Spirit People Reimagining Nation 95
Qwo-Li Driskill
6 Exploring Takatapui Identity within the Maori Community: Implications for Health and Well-Being 113
Clive Aspin
7 Two-Spirit Men’s Sexual Survivance against the Inequality of Desire 123
Brian Joseph Gilley
8 Unsettling Queer Politics: What Can Non-Natives Learn from Two-Spirit Organizing? 132
Scott Lauria Morgensen
Section III: Reading Queer Indigenous Writing
9 Indigenous Fantasies and Sovereign Erotics: Outland Cherokees Write Two-Spirit Nations 153
Lisa Tatonetti
10 The Erotics of Sovereignty 172
Mark Rifkin
11 Gifts of Maskihkîy: Gregory Scofield’s Cree Métis Stories of Self-Acceptance 190
June Scudeler
12 The Revolution Is for Everyone: Imagining an Emancipatory Future through Queer Indigenous Critical Theories 211
Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen
UBC Press is pleased to announce Queer Indigenous Studies edited by
Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen from our publishing partner, The Univeristy Of Arizona Press.
Queer Indigenous Studies
Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature
Qwo-Li Driskell, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen (eds.)
About the Book
“This book is an imagining.” So begins this collection examining critical, Indigenous-centered approaches to understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) lives and communities and the creative implications of queer theory in Native studies. This book is not so much a manifesto as it is a dialogue—a “writing in conversation”—among a luminous group of scholar-activists revisiting the history of gay and lesbian studies in Indigenous communities while forging a path for Indigenous-centered theories and methodologies.
The bold opening to Queer Indigenous Studies invites new dialogues in Native American and Indigenous studies about the directions and implications of queer Indigenous studies. The collection notably engages Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements as alliances that also call for allies beyond their bounds, which the co-editors and contributors model by crossing their varied identities, including Native, trans, straight, non-Native, feminist, Two-Spirit, mixed blood, and queer, to name just a few.
Rooted in the Indigenous Americas and the Pacific, and drawing on disciplines ranging from literature to anthropology, contributors to Queer Indigenous Studies call Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements and allies to center an analysis that critiques the relationship between colonialism and heteropatriarchy. By answering critical turns in Indigenous scholarship that center Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies, contributors join in reshaping Native studies, queer studies, transgender studies, and Indigenous feminisms.
Based on the reality that queer Indigenous people “experience multilayered oppression that profoundly impacts our safety, health, and survival,” this book is at once an imagining and an invitation to the reader to join in the discussion of decolonizing queer Indigenous research and theory and, by doing so, to partake in allied resistance working toward positive change.
About the Editors
Qwo-Li Driskill is a Cherokee Queer/Two-Spirit writer, scholar, and performer. S/he is the author of Walking with Ghosts: Poems and is currently and assistant professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University.
Chris Finley is a queer Native feminist finishing her PhD in American culture at the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes located in Washington State.
Brian Joseph Gilley is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the First Nations Education and Culture Center at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country.
Scott Lauria Morgensen is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University. His work as a white queer critic of settler colonialism appears in his book Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization.
Contents
Introduction 1
Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen
Section I: Performing Queer Indigenous Critiques
1 Decolonizing the Queer Native Body (and Recovering the Native Bull-Dyke): Bringing “Sexy Back” and Out of Native Studies’ Closet 29
Chris Finley
2 Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism 43
Andrea Smith
3 A Queer Caste: Mixing Race and Sexuality in Colonial New Zealand 66
Michelle Erai
4 Fa’afafine Notes: On Tagaloa, Jesus, and Nafanua 81
Dan Taulapapa McMullin
Section II: Situating Two-Spirit and Queer Indigenous Movements
5 (Asegi Ayetl): Cherokee Two-Spirit People Reimagining Nation 95
Qwo-Li Driskill
6 Exploring Takatapui Identity within the Maori Community: Implications for Health and Well-Being 113
Clive Aspin
7 Two-Spirit Men’s Sexual Survivance against the Inequality of Desire 123
Brian Joseph Gilley
8 Unsettling Queer Politics: What Can Non-Natives Learn from Two-Spirit Organizing? 132
Scott Lauria Morgensen
Section III: Reading Queer Indigenous Writing
9 Indigenous Fantasies and Sovereign Erotics: Outland Cherokees Write Two-Spirit Nations 153
Lisa Tatonetti
10 The Erotics of Sovereignty 172
Mark Rifkin
11 Gifts of Maskihkîy: Gregory Scofield’s Cree Métis Stories of Self-Acceptance 190
June Scudeler
12 The Revolution Is for Everyone: Imagining an Emancipatory Future through Queer Indigenous Critical Theories 211
Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen
Indigenous Issues in Social Work
Kia ora,
the following is a link to the Critical Social Work journal which is dedicated to Indigenous Issues. Taima
http://www.uwindsor.ca/criticalsocialwork/2010-volume-11-no-1-0
the following is a link to the Critical Social Work journal which is dedicated to Indigenous Issues. Taima
http://www.uwindsor.ca/criticalsocialwork/2010-volume-11-no-1-0
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Aboriginal Advisor's Report on Aboriginal Child Welfare
Kia ora,
please find attached the above report on the status of Aboriginal Children.
Children First: The Aboriginal Advisor’s Report on the status of Aboriginal child welfare in Ontario, July 2011
http://www.children.gov.on.ca/htdocs/English/topics/aboriginal/reports/child_welfare-2011.aspx
please find attached the above report on the status of Aboriginal Children.
Children First: The Aboriginal Advisor’s Report on the status of Aboriginal child welfare in Ontario, July 2011
http://www.children.gov.on.ca/htdocs/English/topics/aboriginal/reports/child_welfare-2011.aspx
5th Biennial Nga Pae o te Maramatanga conference
Kia ora, see below
First Call for Abstracts: International Indigenous Development Research Conference 2012
The 5th Biennial Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga conference, to be held 27th – 30th June 2012, will highlight indigeneity and the multidisciplinary approach used for indigenous development. Please find attached details for the first call for papers, deadline December 1. The conference website http://www.indigenousdevelopment2012.ac.nz/ is now live too.
First Call for Abstracts: International Indigenous Development Research Conference 2012
The 5th Biennial Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga conference, to be held 27th – 30th June 2012, will highlight indigeneity and the multidisciplinary approach used for indigenous development. Please find attached details for the first call for papers, deadline December 1. The conference website http://www.indigenousdevelopment2012.ac.nz/ is now live too.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Matariki and Aboriginal Day
Kia ora/Aanii, greetings
this is to acknowledge the ceremonies taking place in Aotearoa for Matariki, a celebration of the Maori New Year and Aboriginal Day which is in Canada.
It is exciting to be surrounded by traditions and culture.
Kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui, Taima
this is to acknowledge the ceremonies taking place in Aotearoa for Matariki, a celebration of the Maori New Year and Aboriginal Day which is in Canada.
It is exciting to be surrounded by traditions and culture.
Kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui, Taima
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