For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934691933 ISBN 13: 9781934691939

Publisher: SAR Press, 2012

Synopsis

Included in this book are discussions of global collapse, what to consider in returning to a land-based existence, demilitarization for imperial purposes and re-militarization for Indigenous purposes, survival strategies for tribal prisoners, moving beyond the nation-state model, a land-based educational model, personal decolonization, decolonization strategies for youth in custody, and decolonizing gender roles.

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About the Author

Waziyatawin (formerly Angela Cavender Wilson) is a Dakota writer, teacher, and activist committed to the pursuit of Indigenous liberation and reclamation of homelands. Her work seeks to build a culture of resistance within Indigenous communities, to recover Indigenous ways of being, and to eradicate colonial institutions. She is currently writing on the topics of Indigenous women and resistance and Indigenous survival in the collapse of industrial civilization. Waziyatawin comes from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) in southwestern Minnesota. After receiving her Ph.D. in American history from Cornell University in 2000, she earned tenure and an associate professorship in the history department at Arizona State University where she taught for seven years. Waziyatawin currently holds the Indigenous Peoples Research Chair in the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria. She is the author or co/editor of six volumes, including What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland (St. Paul: Living Justice Press, 2008), which won the 2009 Independent Publishers' Silver Book Award for Best Regional Non-Fiction in the Midwest.

Review

This book is absolutely for Indigenous minds and spirits; a book that challenges our minds and awakens our spirits, expands our minds and allows our spirits to soar. Linda Tuhiwai Smith, University of Waikato, Aotearoa (New Zealand) --Pre-publication review

Grounded in the voices of collaborative work of its many authors, this collection is multilayered and all encompassing.... This is a highly useful anthology for anyone interested in Indigenous scholarship and philosophies. It will add immensely to the growing scholarship of First Peoples globally. --Erica Neeganagwedgin, Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources online

Grounded in the voices of collaborative work of its many authors, this collection is multilayered and all encompassing.... This is a highly useful anthology for anyone interested in Indigenous scholarship and philosophies. It will add immensely to the growing scholarship of First Peoples globally. --Erica Neeganagwedgin, Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources online

Edition details

• Publisher: SAR Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934691933
• ISBN 13: 9781934691939
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Waziyatawin, Bird Michael Yellow