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Gehl, Lynn.

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Toward an indigenous understanding of government-imposed essentialized discourses of identity for Aboriginal people.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Toward an indigenous understanding of government-imposed essentialized discourses of identity for Aboriginal people./
Author:	Gehl, Lynn.
Description:	100 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-01, page: 0131.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International44-01.
Subject:	Canadian Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MR04839
ISBN:	9780494048399

Toward an indigenous understanding of government-imposed essentialized discourses of identity for Aboriginal people.
Gehl, Lynn.

Toward an indigenous understanding of government-imposed essentialized discourses of identity for Aboriginal people. - 100 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-01, page: 0131.

Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University (Canada), 2005.

This thesis provides a theory and a model of a phenomenon called "disenfranchised spirit" which is best understood in the Western worldview as a contemporary form of soul loss. Within this effort, the interconnecting threads of government power, identity, the human spirit, Aboriginal health, disempowerment, and the current de-colonization movement are articulated. Implicated in disenfranchised spirit theory are three essentialized discourses of identity imposed during the colonization process: the Indian Act's registration requirements, both past and present; blood-quantum; and phenotype physiology. Succinctly, in this thesis it is argued that these essentialized discourses of Indigenous identity and the subsequent practices hold the power to prevent many Aboriginal people from becoming culturally empowered, consequently rendering them spiritually disenfranchised void of constructive and progressive agency and the ability to rationalize their way out of the trap of essentialism. While working within a contemporary Indigenous paradigm, these discourses are clearly and directly linked to the Canadian government's past and continued need to get rid of Indians. Embracing Indigenous ways of knowing, this endeavour draws from first-person experience as well as from observations of community members' experience with essentialism. This analysis ends with a discussion of traditional cultural meaning systems---teachings, rituals and ceremonies---that have been employed historically by Indigenous peoples to establish and maintain healthy identity productions that are required to live a good life. In this way, an alternative is offered to the Canadian government's essentialized discourses.

ISBN: 9780494048399Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020605
Canadian Studies.

Toward an indigenous understanding of government-imposed essentialized discourses of identity for Aboriginal people.
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