CANS 406 Lecture 4: INDG 401 Seminar Week 2
22 May 2018
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Week 2 Friday Jan. 19th – Oral Histories, Methodology, Epistemology
Thoughts from Group:
• Reciprocity, locality
Winona Wheeler - INDG scholar, University SK Indigenous studies
- IK and IT cannot be taken out of their context and out into colonial institutions and
expected to translate perfectly
- knowledge transferred through relationships
Archibald - INDG scholar, UBC dean of ed
- Indigenous stories, which are based on oral delivery and thought to have implicit
meanings, conflict with academic literate conditions
- holism creates a context for oral histories, storytelling
- Coyote eyes story
- Elders direct the learning process for those who asks, the learner must respect the
elder.
Cruikshank - Anthropologist, lived in Indigenous communities
- incorporates oral histories of Indigenous groups in glacial flow and movement
patterns of Indigenous groups as they moved south to gulf of Alaska
- This goes against Wheeler’s point that you cannot take this knowledge out of their
context
Irlbacher Fox - Indigenous scholar
- Settlers must recognize their privilege and discard it.
- Settler privilege cannot be used for good as it will keep in place the current relation of
power
- Shift in power!!! Necessary, Indigenous people and knowledge cannot just be placed
into existing settler institutions
Allyship? Questionable term - accomplice as better term?
• Self reflexivity
• Putting the “ally” outside of their worldview and making them uncomfortable
• Cultural protocol as dynamic. Traditional governance structures working out how to
maintain cultural protocol while decolonizing/indigenizing – choosing what to
discuss/show to researchers,
• Strategic exclusions as form of power
• Problems in the academy with validity of knowledge. Indigenous elders, thinkers and
their oral histories, Indigenous traditions/knowledge seen as non academic sources
in some circles. When used, as Wheeler states, they are used improperly in the
Academy because of their removal from relationships and context, memory.
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Document Summary
Week 2 friday jan. 19th oral histories, methodology, epistemology. Winona wheeler - indg scholar, university sk indigenous studies. Ik and it cannot be taken out of their context and out into colonial institutions and expected to translate perfectly knowledge transferred through relationships. Archibald - indg scholar, ubc dean of ed. Indigenous stories, which are based on oral delivery and thought to have implicit meanings, conflict with academic literate conditions. Holism creates a context for oral histories, storytelling. Elders direct the learning process for those who asks, the learner must respect the elder. Cruikshank - anthropologist, lived in indigenous communities incorporates oral histories of indigenous groups in glacial flow and movement patterns of indigenous groups as they moved south to gulf of alaska. This goes against wheeler"s point that you cannot take this knowledge out of their context. Settlers must recognize their privilege and discard it.
