Coming home as resistance
Subtitle: an anti-colonial process.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Colonization -- Canada.; Racism -- Canada.; Decolonization -- Canada.
Description: I seek to reveal how processes of racialization in Canadian society perpetuate and sustain colonialism and relations of domination and subordination between Indigenous Peoples and dominant society. The theoretical and methodological frameworks that I employ allow me to actively engage in the anti-colonial process. They empower me to reaffirm my location and my identity as a woman of Indigenous ancestry in academia and also within dominant Canadian society. I discuss representation, identity, culture and spirituality, and offer examples of how these concepts have served as colonial tools, while also seeking possibilities for refraining these concepts towards decolonization. I highlight the importance of sovereignty and self-determination for Indigenous Peoples, reflected in the concepts of "claiming voice" and "coming home". This research project is a journey in anti-colonial thought, which I hope may contribute to an on-going dialogue of decolonization for and by Indigenous Peoples throughout the Americas.
Notes: Adviser: Njoki Nathani Wane.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, page: 1956.

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