Manitoba Fall Suppers 2017
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Smith (2012). Introduction. (Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.)
“There is certainly a history of research of indigenous peoples which continues to make indigenous students who encounter this history very angry. Sometimes they react by deciding never to do any research; but then they go out into the community … They are referred to as project workers, community activists or consultants, anything but ‘researchers’.” (p 34)
Womack (2016). Introduction: American Indian Literary Self-Determination.
“I am assuming that it is just as likely that things European are Indianized rather than the anthropological assumption that things Indian are always swallowed up by European culture. I reject, in other words, the supremacist notion that assimilation can only go in one direction …” (p 249)
Qwul’sih’yah’maht & Robina (2016). Honouring the Oral Traditions of My Ancestors through Storytelling.
“I am suggesting that the level of complexity and sophistication in which major events were witnessed in our communities demands that these oral histories and stories be reconceptualized and viewed as primary sources.” (p 244)
Brubaker (1996). Nationalizing states in the old ‘New Europe’ – and the new.
“Yet far from furthering the assimilation or even securing the loyalty of borderland East Slavs, Poland’s inept nationalizing policies and practices in the interwar period had just the opposite effect, producing by the end of the period what had not existed at the beginning: a consolidated, strongly anti-Polish Belarusian and — to an even greater extent — Ukrainian national consciousness. This happened through heavy-handed efforts to nationalize the land, the schools, and the churches of the region, and through the harsh repression of Belarusian and Ukrainian nationalist and social-revolutionary movements.” (p 100)
Sinclair (2016). Responsible and Ethical Criticisms of Indigenous Literatures.
“Simply, Native writers write about more than resistances to colonialism. To use Womack’s metaphor, European invasion of our territories is a branch on the tree, albeit a heavy one, but ultimately only a branch.” (p 305)
Reder (2016). Introduction. (Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures.)
“Eigenbrod’s conception of position is as one in motion, influenced by the roots one has put down and the routes one has been on and will still travel.” (p 12)