On our Knees

Johnson, Sarah Kathleen

doi:10.1177/0008429817733269

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“…The residential schools came with a recorded history of abuse (Johnson, 2018;Regan, 2010;Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015). For example, repeated, systematic, sadistic and humiliating trauma to the physical, sexual, spiritual and emotional health of a person included: disrobing, shaving of the head, uniforms, cultural shame, racist, degrading names and comments, physical abuse, neglect, humiliation, threats if the child would tell, spiritual abuse, sexual abuse, indoctrination to Christianity, unequivocal discipline and punishment, regimented and rigid rules, unrealistic work/chore expectations (slave labour), malnourishment, and the omnipotence of priests (Johnson, 2018;Regan, 2010;Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015). This list is not exhaustive.…”

Section: Critical Indigenous Chronicles and Constructsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Indigenous ways of knowing: Research, narratives, and self-actualisation

Simard¹

2020

IJCIS

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The process of Indigenous research methodologies has existed within the Anishinaabe worldview for over a millennium. The Anishinaabe-centric author presents and highlights a pathway of Indigenous research methodologies, and critically analyses research, pedagogy and attachment through an Indigenous research methodology. Indigenous research lives within the Anishinaabe language as a cultural process for understanding purpose, in addition to understanding the specific gifts unknown to the researcher. This article identifies Anishinaabe Gikendaasowin as a manner of centring oneself within one’s cultural worldview. Indigenous research methodologies contain intrinsic processes of critical cultural construct development, critical content analysis,ceremony and cultural attachment. This article further explores colonial worldview impacts on Indigenous peoples and the misapplication of that research and its influence on educational paradigms. Finally, an Anishinaabe scholarly exemplar is presented that provides tangible steps for incorporating spirit knowledge into positive, innovative and pedagogical Indigenous lessons. Indigenous research sovereignty requires consent when researching our Anishinaabe sacred practice-based evidence. As a result, Indigenous research methodologies will often start with the act of cultural grounding. Cultural grounding in research is not a new concept. In the Anishinaabe language, manidoo waabiwin can translate into seeing things in a spiritual way. This spiritual wayis the bridge to understanding, appreciating and attaching to a construct or phenomenon within an Indigenous way of knowing journey. There are many different manners to grounding one’s spiritual research work that range from offering tobacco to the aatsokaanug (inadequately translated as spirits), and to the participation in cultural activities, both of which will often promote spiritual awareness or manido waabiwin. This critical Indigenous research methodologies article highlights Anishinaabe Gikendaasowin, or Anishinaabe knowledge or ways of knowing that centres within Anishinaabe worldview. This article is embedded in Anishinaabe knowledge and can be considered Anishinaabe-centric.

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Section: Critical Indigenous Chronicles and Constructsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Indigenous ways of knowing: Research, narratives, and self-actualisation

Simard¹

2020

IJCIS

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The Empire Sings

Whitla

2020

New Approaches to Religion and Power

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‘…and yet there’s still no peace’ Catholic Indigenous Residential Schools in Canada

McKinney

2022

j. relig. educ.

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Pope Francis met representatives of the Indigenous peoples of Canada in Rome in April 2022 and in Canada in July 2022. At these meetings he offered sincere apologies for the ways in which the Catholic Church had colluded with the strategy of cultural assimilation of the Indigenous people in Canada. This was especially abhorrent in the residential schools, operated by the Catholic Church (and other Christian churches), that aimed to ‘evangelise’ and ‘civilise’ the Indigenous children. He emphasised that this was a ‘disastrous error’ and the ‘overall effects of the policies linked to the residential schools were catastrophic’. He was very clear at both meetings that this abuse was ‘incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ’. These Catholic residential schools and the impact of these schools on the Indigenous people are discussed in this article.

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On our Knees

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Critical Indigenous ways of knowing: Research, narratives, and self-actualisation

Critical Indigenous ways of knowing: Research, narratives, and self-actualisation

The Empire Sings

‘…and yet there’s still no peace’ Catholic Indigenous Residential Schools in Canada

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