Indigenous Elderly in the United States: Wounded Bodies, Vivid Minds

This paper addresses age and aging from a critical humanities perspective and uses indigenous societies as an example on how to positively manage the aging process, and to show that certain societies’ positive approach to old age can help ameliorate the often negatively viewed phases of growing olde...

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Published in:Linguaculture
Main Author: Heidrun Moertl
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press 2012
Subjects:
American Indian
Aging
Grandparenting
Anishinaabe
Ojibwe
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Indian
anishina*
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2012-3-1-271
https://doaj.org/article/6e977c843f794cd2893f54798eed4fce
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Summary:This paper addresses age and aging from a critical humanities perspective and uses indigenous societies as an example on how to positively manage the aging process, and to show that certain societies’ positive approach to old age can help ameliorate the often negatively viewed phases of growing older, aging people’s bodies over the years, but not their minds.

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