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Category: Artby - Randolph Bowers

Indigenous knowledge and value

Indigenous knowledge and value

November 1, 2010

Western knowledge is a commodity that is sold only to those who can afford access. Young people today look at the internet and think, of course knowledge is free! Look…

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What is knowledge?

What is knowledge?

November 1, 2010

This is a potent question at a time when Indigenous nations struggle to assert rights to intellectual property. But before we look at the economics and politics of knowledge in…

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The Cultural Vortex of Modernity

The Cultural Vortex of Modernity

October 24, 2010

Many commentators including Indigenous scholars have continually raised the issues that settler-invader societies in Australia, Canada, the USA, and other synthetic nation states built on the backs of native people…

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Identity, prejudice and healing

Identity, prejudice and healing

February 25, 2010

The work of Professor Judy Atkinson in Australia has moved forward a scholarship and practice around what she has called ‘educaring’ as a distinctly Indigenous approach to what may be…

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Wholistic Medicine

Wholistic Medicine

October 3, 2008

While the dominant discourse relies on codes and categories that separate for ease of analysis, Indigenous models of knowing rely on awareness of the whole. This awareness is spoken through…

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Chief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library

The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.

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