Week #11 ME

Step #3. Exploring. Indigeneity and Roots

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Indigeneity: Respect due, gratitude to the holistic indigenous peoples and communities of the land where any course is taking place, as the original, autochthonous, sovereign and autonomous first nations present since time immemorial, and still upon that land today, more than 500 years after colonization, and into the future. 

Diasporic Indigeneity: Respect due to holistic colonized peoples who are in diaspora upon the land where a course is taking place. In the case of multitudes of People of Color, macroscales two and three displaced their families from their precolonial ancestral homeland as "normal". When they connect to their indigenous roots, their indigenous peoplehood and legacies of that homeland, that is called Diasporic Indigeneity. 

Indigeneity and Diasporic Indigeneity signify dynamic, complex, holistic:

1) Peoples who believe they are ancestrally related and identify themselves based on oral and/or written stories, as descendants of the original inhabitants of their ancestral homelands.

2) Peoples who may but not necessarily, have their own informal/ or formal political, economic, social institutions, with tend to be community-based and reflect their distinct ceremonial cycles, kinship networks and continuously evolving cultural traditions. 

3) Peoples who speak ( or once spoke) an indigenous language,  often different from the dominant society

4) Peoples who distinguish themselves from their ancestral homelands/sacred sites, which may be threatened by ongoing military, economic, or political encroachment or may be places where indigenous peoples have been previously displaced and expelled creating a diaspora while seeking to enhance their cultural, political, economic sovereignty and autonomy. 

Remember that last week we read a poem and analyzed what were the main emotions, images, clear ideas and themes the poem eovked. This week, we will be using similar questions to discuss different lesson plans from the Ethnic Studies Curriculum in California. 

This is your task:

1) My Family's Not from Africa reading.

2) After you read and annotate the lesson plan carefully, please complete the following:

a. Words that evoke strong emotions

b. Words that evoke strong images

c. Words that convey a clear idea

d. Emerging Themes

e. Connections with our own culture/family/ ancestry