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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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Geddes, Gary. United Kingdom: Penguin Books , 2015. 1st.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 KIM 2015
Availability
1 copy, 1 available
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge toge…
Author
Geddes, Gary
Edition
1st
Place of Publication
United Kingdom
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publication Date
2015
Physical Description
408pp
Subjects
Anti-Racism
Diversity
Indigenous
Abstract
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on ?a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise? (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings?asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass?offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
ISBN
978-1571313560
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 KIM 2015

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Medicine Unbundled:: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care

https://cwslc.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog125176
Geddes, Gary. British Columbia, Canada: Heritage House , 2017. 1st.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 GED 2017
Availability
1 copy, 1 available
After the publication of his critically acclaimed 2011 book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer?s Search for Justice and Healing in Africa, author Gary Geddes turned the investigative lens on his own country, embarking on a long and difficult journey across Canada to interview Indigenous elders willing…
Author
Geddes, Gary
Edition
1st
Place of Publication
British Columbia, Canada
Publisher
Heritage House
Publication Date
2017
Physical Description
320pp
Subjects
Anti-Racism
Diversity
Indigenous
Reconciliation
Abstract
After the publication of his critically acclaimed 2011 book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer?s Search for Justice and Healing in Africa, author Gary Geddes turned the investigative lens on his own country, embarking on a long and difficult journey across Canada to interview Indigenous elders willing to share their experiences of segregated health care, including their treatment in the "Indian hospitals" that existed from coast to coast for over half a century.
The memories recounted by these survivors?from gratuitous drug and surgical experiments to electroshock treatments intended to destroy the memory of sexual abuse?are truly harrowing, and will surely shatter any lingering illusions about the virtues or good intentions of our colonial past. Yet, this is more than just the painful history of a once-so-called vanishing people (a people who have resisted vanishing despite the best efforts of those in charge); it is a testament to survival, perseverance, and the power of memory to keep history alive and promote the idea of a more open and just future.
Released to coincide with the Year of Reconciliation (2017), Medicine Unbundled is an important and timely contribution to our national narrative.
ISBN
978-1772031645
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 GED 2017

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Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods

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Geddes, Gary. Halifax & Winnipeg, Canada: Fernwood Publishing , 2008. 1st.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 WIL 2008
Availability
1 copy, 1 available
Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put int…
Author
Geddes, Gary
Edition
1st
Place of Publication
Halifax & Winnipeg, Canada
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date
2008
Physical Description
144pp
Subjects
Anti-Racism
Diversity
Indigenous
Research
Abstract
Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. Relationships don?t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that is Indigenous research. Indigenous research is the ceremony of maintaining accountability to these relationships. For researchers to be accountable to all our relations, we must make careful choices in our selection of topics, methods of data collection, forms of analysis and finally in the way we present information. I?m an Opaskwayak Cree from northern Manitoba currently living in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, Australia. I?m also a father of three boys, a researcher, son, uncle, teacher, world traveller, knowledge keeper and knowledge seeker. As an educated Indian, I?ve spent much of my life straddling the Indigenous and academic worlds. Most of my time these days is spent teaching other Indigenous knowledge seekers (and my kids) how to accomplish this balancing act while still keeping both feet on the ground.
ISBN
978-1552662816
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 WIL 2008

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