“Sisters Rising” is an Indigenous-led research project that centers the gender knowledge of Indigenous youth and communities. In this article, members of “Sisters Rising” build on the notion of kinscapes to propose renegade stewardship as a generative concept through which to consider what kinds of responses are required at the community-scholarly-activist level to disrupt conditions of gender-based and sexual violence and racialized poverty that strip Indigenous bodies of sovereignty, land, and cultural connections while targeting us for genocide. Operating from a multimethod research standpoint that is land- and arts-based, community-rooted, and action-oriented, that engages youth of all genders, and that links body sovereignty to decolonization, this work seeks to build political, theoretical, ceremonial, and interpersonal channels that are crucial to restoring dignity with advocacy for and by Indigenous communities.
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Rekinning Our Kinscapes
Renegade Indigenous Stewarding against Gender Genocide
Sandrina de Finney, Shezell-Rae Sam, Chantal Adams, Keenan Andrew, Kathryn McLeod, Amber Lewis, Gabby Lewis, Michaela Louis, and Pawa Haiyupis
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- Research Article
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- 80–98 (19 total)
Imagining Alternative Spaces
<em>Re-searching</em> Sexualized Violence with Indigenous Girls in Canada
Anna Chadwick
“Sisters Rising” is an Indigenous-led, community-based research study focused on Indigenous teachings related to sovereignty and gender wellbeing. In this article, I reflect on the outcomes of re-searching sexualized violence with Indigenous girls involved with “Sisters Rising” in remote communities in northern British Columbia, Canada. Through an emergent methodology that draws from Indigenous and borderland feminisms to conduct arts- and land-based workshops with girls and community members, I seek to unsettle my relationships to the communities with which I work, and the land on which I work. I look to arts-based methods and witnessing to disrupt traditional hegemonic discourses of settler colonialism. I reflect on how (re)storying spaces requires witnessing that incorporates (self-)critical engagement that destabilizes certainty. This position is a critical space in which to unsettle conceptual and physical geographies and envision alternative spaces where Indigenous girls are seen and heard with dignity and respect.
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- Research Article
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- 99–115 (17 total)
The Young Indigenous Women's Utopia Group, Cindy Moccasin, Jessica McNab, Catherine Vanner, Sarah Flicker, Jennifer Altenberg, and Kari-Dawn Wuttunee
Prentice . 2014 . “‘ Because We Have Really Unique Art’: Decolonizing Research with Indigenous Youth Using the Arts .” International Journal of Indigenous Health 10 ( 1 ): 16 – 34 . https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ijih/article/view/13271 10
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 97–113 (17 total)
Margot Francis
an expression of public mourning that, as the Anishinaabeg playwright and scholar Jill Carter describes, affixes “a name to our grief” (2015: 9). In a colonial context in which the suicide of Indigenous youth is treated as tragic, but inevitable
Indigenous Urbanization in Russia's Arctic
The Case of Nenets Autonomous Region
Marya Rozanova
This article presents the social, economic, and political factors that contribute to the ongoing urbanization of the Nenets indigenous communities (“communities-in-transition”) in the Nenets Autonomous Region. Focusing on the preconditions for “indigenous flight” from traditional rural settlements to urban areas, the article analyzes key indicators—demographics, language proficiency, education level, and occupational sector, as well as social cohesion, interethnic relations, and political inclusion in the larger urban context—to describe the adaptation and integration processes of these new city dwellers. Based on the fieldwork in the region, the article also presents individual life strategies and career choices of indigenous youth and describes the role of gender in indigenous urbanization.
Joachim Otto Habeck
This special issue of Sibirica comprises a selection of papers presented at the conference “'Everything is still before you“: being young in Siberia today' (Halle, November 2003). This introduction opens with a short review of the conventional social-sciences approach toward youth (especially indigenous youth) as an 'object of concern'. A brief summary of the subsequent papers follows, highlighting several crosscutting themes: (1) the concept of youth, the process of becoming an adult and the expectations connected with it; (2) acquisition of knowledge within and outside formal education; and (3) sports, music and games as meaningful and creative spheres of social interaction. The introduction concludes with the argument that the ambit of 'Siberian' anthropology can be significantly enlarged through the integration of sociological and cultural studies approaches and methods into ethnographic inquiry.
Evenki Adolescents’ Identities
Negotiating the Modern and the Traditional in Educational Settings
Svetlana Huusko
Abstract
Young Evenkis grow up in the middle of powerful colonial representations of their culture, community, and history. These are constructed in and disseminated through popular oral culture, education, museums, and shape both Russian ideas of Evenkis and the self-identity of the indigenous youth. This article discusses how the Evenki adolescents construct their personal identities and negotiate with dominant representations of Evenkiness within educational settings in Russia. When the indigenous culture is represented as locked in the past, the adolescents, while identifying themselves as indigenous, view themselves outside the culture. Fieldwork results show how the local approach to understanding “tradition” and “modernity” leads to the marginalization of indigenous culture and to assimilation among Evenki adolescents in Buriatiia, Russia.
Brigette Krieg
that this has had an impact on the family ( MacNeil 2008 ). Recognizing the devastating effects of colonization on their ancestors, Indigenous youth across Canada, in a special committee of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People, identified a sense
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 28–45 (18 total)
Sexy Health Carnival
One Small Part of Indigenous Herstory
Alexa Lesperance
Health Network (NYSHN). This is a by and for Indigenous youth organization that works across issues of reproductive health, rights, and justice, which is just another way of saying that we support community and youth awesome-ness! In wanting to create
Renée Monchalin and Lisa Monchalin
working at Aboriginal Student Services at Brock University, for Indigenous youth leaders from across Canada to take part in a three-year digital storytelling project called Taking Action II: Art and Aboriginal Youth Leadership for HIV Prevention. Taking