Post-colonial recovering and healing
Naming and defining the problem is the first step toward post-colonial recovering and healing. This paper addresses issues of rac-ism, oppression, feminism, and resistance theory within the context of colonialism. This paper derives from the author’s desire to work to-ward effective change in Canadi...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.650.9757 2023-05-15T16:16:26+02:00 Post-colonial recovering and healing Angelina Weenie The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2000 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.650.9757 http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/LIB/LIB6.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.650.9757 http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/LIB/LIB6.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/LIB/LIB6.pdf text 2000 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T16:23:48Z Naming and defining the problem is the first step toward post-colonial recovering and healing. This paper addresses issues of rac-ism, oppression, feminism, and resistance theory within the context of colonialism. This paper derives from the author’s desire to work to-ward effective change in Canadian First Nations ’ education. I speak from the position of an Aboriginal woman, a single parent, and an educator. These identities are shaped by various social, political, and economic contexts and have named me as the “other. ” My history denotes me as a colo-nized person. By virtue of the Canadian Indian Act of 1876, I am considered a ward of the Federal Government. I am implicated in the dichotomies of colo-nizer/colonized, oppressor/oppressed, male/female. These binaries depend upon “essentialized ” notions of race, class, and gender. The colonial encounter has been devastating to tribal peoples, and a reawakening is timely and necessary. Resistance, as part of decolonization, is as much a personal struggle as it is a group struggle. Resistance is analogous to Text First Nations Unknown Indian |
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Naming and defining the problem is the first step toward post-colonial recovering and healing. This paper addresses issues of rac-ism, oppression, feminism, and resistance theory within the context of colonialism. This paper derives from the author’s desire to work to-ward effective change in Canadian First Nations ’ education. I speak from the position of an Aboriginal woman, a single parent, and an educator. These identities are shaped by various social, political, and economic contexts and have named me as the “other. ” My history denotes me as a colo-nized person. By virtue of the Canadian Indian Act of 1876, I am considered a ward of the Federal Government. I am implicated in the dichotomies of colo-nizer/colonized, oppressor/oppressed, male/female. These binaries depend upon “essentialized ” notions of race, class, and gender. The colonial encounter has been devastating to tribal peoples, and a reawakening is timely and necessary. Resistance, as part of decolonization, is as much a personal struggle as it is a group struggle. Resistance is analogous to |
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