Cultural property -- Protection, Cultural property -- Protection -- United States, Cultural property, Decolonization, Decolonization -- United States, Postcolonialism -- United States, Postcolonialism, Colonization, Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Ethnic identity, Indigenous peoples -- Ethnic identity, Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Politics and government, Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government, National Self-determination-- United States, United States -- Race Relations, Race Relations, United States, Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Social conditions 

"Recognizing an urgent need for Indigenous liberation strategies, Indigenous intellectuals created a book with hands-on suggestions and activities to enable Indigenous communities to decolonize themselves. The authors begin with the belief that Indigenous Peoples have the power, strength, and intelligence to develop culturally specific decolonization strategies for their own communities and thereby systematically pursue their own liberation. The authors demystify the language of colonization and decolonization to help Indigenous communities identify useful concepts, terms, and intellectual frameworks in their struggles toward liberation and self-determination. This handbook covers a wide range of topics, including Indigenous governance, education, language, oral tradition, repatriation, images and stereotypes, diets, and truth-telling. It aims to facilitate critical thinking while fostering community discussions and plans for meaningful change."--Back cover. 

xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. 

Contents:
Beginning decolonization / Waziyatawin and Michael Yellow Bird
Tribal critical thinking centers / Michael Yellow Bird
Just good sports : the impact of native references in sports on native youth and what some decolonizers have done about it / Suzan Shown Harjo
Decolonizing NAGPRA / James Riding In
Decolonizing indigenous diets / Waziyatawin
The decolonization of indigenous governance / Robert Odawi Porter
Defying colonization through language survival / Waziyatawin
Decolonizing through storytelling / CHiXapKaid
Ideology, power, and the miseducation of indigenous peoples in the United States / Cornel Pewewardy
Organizing indigenous governance to invent the future / T'hohahoken
Decolonizing tribal enrollment / Michael Yellow Bird
Relieving our suffering : indigenous decolonization and a United States truth commission / Waziyatawin