Jürgen & R
TABLE OF CONTENTSForewords by Leny Mendoza Strobel, Apela Colorado, and
Preface
Stanley Krippner
Chapter 0, Let’s Have a Conversation
Chapter 1, Who Am I?
Chapter 2, The Self – Now Larger, Now Smaller
Chapter 3, Why Not Simply ‘Autobiography’?
Chapter 4, Ethnoautobiography Defined
Chapter 5, We Are Moral Beings
Chapter 6, Community and Communitas
Chapter 7, Where Am I? Ethnoautobiography as Gateway to Place
Chapter 8, Connecting Nature, Self and History
Chapter 9, History – Memory and Imagination
Chapter 10, Mythic Stories
Chapter 11, Who Are My Ancestors?
Chapter 12, En/gendering Embodied Ethnoautobiography
Chapter 13, Gathering Ourselves Through Dreams
Chapter 14, Faith, Spirituality, Skepticism
Chapter 15, To Tell a Story …
Chapter 16, Healing Ourselves – Healing Others
Chapter 17, Continuing the Conversation
Ethnoautobiography !Stories and Practices for Unlearning Whiteness, Decolonization,
Uncovering Ethnicities!by Jürgen Werner Kremer and R Jackson-Paton
This interdisciplinary textbook with exercises is designed for undergraduate classes exploring issues of identity and multiculturalism. Each chapter focuses on one major theme important in the process of identity construction and narration. It includes a glossary of key terms, activities, additional resources, and autobiographical statements by the authors.
Decolonizing is thus not just the recovery of the memory traces of Indigenous identities in all of us, but a creative psycho-spiritual, moral, political and activist endeavor. First and foremost, decolonization must turn its gaze to the center of colonial processes, Europe, and interrupt the process of our self-colonization.
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Cueva de las Manos, Santa Cruz, Argentina c. 11,000 - 7500 BCE
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Bronze age rock carving
Northern Bohuslän, Sweden,
1500 - 500 BCE
Stories and Practices for Unlearning Whiteness, Decolonization, Uncovering Ethnicities
Throughout the book free verse riffs serve as personal narratives upon which the chapters are woven. For example:
Chapter 0, So You Really Want to Know Who I Am?
Chapter 1, No Longer a Teen
Chapter 3, I Am a White Man
Chapter 4, The Old Ones Would Say
Chapter 5, Nazis in the Closet
Chapter 6, Looking for Cynthia Ann Parker
Chapter 7, Coaquannok — The Place of the Long Trees
Chapter 8, Timbisha Transformations
Chapter 9, To Sand Creek
Chapter 10, Mythic Tricksters at Play
Chapter 11, Ancestral Imaginings
Chapter 12, Lessons from Staff Sargent Harley
Chapter 14, Indigenous...Science
Chapter 15, Homecoming
Chapter 17, Bardic Resolutions
To tell our story in the proper way means imagining ourselves with something resembling an Indigenous process of awareness – the freedom to be an artist aware of Indigenous roots.
Sample activities:
Self-introduction: Who are you, culturally speaking? Who are your ancestors?
!Visualizing settlement: Guided visualization highlighting forgotten, or denied, aspects of self and society.
!Una ofrenda, or ancestral collage:
Create a visual representation of people, places and items from your ancestry.
!Composing ethnoautobiography:
Bring an artifact and share a real or imagined story.
!Mythological narration: Research and summarize a mythological story from your ancestral origins.
!Making pilgrimages: Research about a place in the United States where it is appropriate to make a pilgrimage as a consequence of settlement, violence, genocide, slavery, etc.
!Council of all ancestors: Visualization to connect with one of your ancestors, and reflect on the current state of affairs in our society.
Key terms include:
Amer-European
Critical, Indigenous inquiry
Cultural ecology
Decolonization
Eurocentered
Genealogical imagination
Genocide
Radical, or Indigenous presence
Recovery of Indigenous mind
Restor(y)ing
Settlement privilege
Survivance
White mind
White privilege
Bronze age rock carving, Northern Bohuslän, Sweden
1500 - 500 BCE
Members of dominant societies may make a courageous choice to imagine themselves with their dreams in a particular time, place, and community, recollect their ancestral lines, and confront histories of supremacy.
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