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Autor: Daniel Payne, Erica Foden-Lenahan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Art Libraries Journal
ISSN: 2059-7525
0307-4722
DOI: 10.1017/alj.2020.20
Popis: As I learn more about Indigenous epistemologies in my work at OCAD University through the Indigenous Visual Culture program, I feel a complex state of excitement, hope, and frustration: hopefulness due to a vision that the fusion of Indigenous and Western European knowledge systems holds such promise for creating a new, equitable and truly democratic society for all Canadians, yet profound frustration knowing that we have had hundreds of years and countless treaties, reports, and governmental commissions to build this society but have, so far, failed to do so;a failure that is to the detriment of all in Canada By my presence in Toronto as a member of the settler population, I must accept my implication in the injustices of cultural genocide, but I can also view myself as a participant in the treaty obligations symbolically encoded in the wampum belt agreements and other treaty documents signed with First Nations across Canada Decolonising has been termed as ‘knowledge work’4 and I will do everything in my power to meet this challenge and, through my work as librarian, spread knowledge about how our country can be re-envisioned Indigenous knowledge systems are grounded in thousands of years of living on the land in North America and it is now time for us in the settler populations to sit down and listen and learn I want Canada truly to be my home and Native land and not a home on Native land As we try to navigate through the current Covid-19 pandemic situation, I am firmly convinced that many of its disruptive and devastating effects could have been avoided if we had only embedded the principles of the Dish with One Spoon alliance into the fabric of our Canadian society
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