Decolonization, Indigenous peoples 

"The essays in Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision spring from an International Summer Institute on the cultural restoration of oppressed Indigenous peoples. The contributors, primarily Indigenous, unravel the processes of colonization that enfolded modern society and resulted in the oppression of Indigenous peoples.

The authors — among them Gregory Cajete, Erica-Irene Daes, Bonnie Duran and Eduardo Duran, James Youngblood Henderson, Linda Hogan, Leroy Little Bear, Ted Moses, Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith, Graham Hingangaroa Smith, and Robert Yazzie — draw on a range of disciplines, professions, and experiences. Addressing four urgent and necessary issues — mapping colonialism, diagnosing colonialism, healing colonized Indigenous peoples, and imagining postcolonial visions — they provide new frameworks for understanding how and why colonization has been so pervasive and tenacious among Indigenous peoples. They also envision what they would desire in a truly postcolonial context.

In moving and inspiring ways, Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision elaborates a new inclusive vision of a global and national order and articulates new approaches for protecting, healing, and restoring long-oppressed peoples, and for respecting their cultures and languages.

Marie Battiste is a Mi'kmaq educator from Potlo'tek First Nation in Nova Scotia, Canada, and a professor in the Indian and Northern Education Program at the University of Saskatchewan. She is co-editor of First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds (UBC Press, 1995)."--Back cover. 

xxx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 

Contents:
Western door : mapping colonialism
The context of the state of nature / James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson
Indigenous peoples and postcolonial colonialism / Robert Yazzie
Hawaiian statehood revisited / Poka Laenui (Hayden F. Burgess)
Northern door : diagnosing colonialism
Postcolonial ghost dancing : diagnosing European colonialism / James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson
Jagged worldviews colliding / Leroy Little Bear
Applied postcolonial clinical and research strategies / Bonnie Duran and Eduardo Duran
Transforming the realities of colonialism : voyage of self-discovery / Ian Hingley
Eastern door : healing colonized indigenous peoples
A different yield / Linda Hogan
From hand to mouth : the postcolonial politics of oral and written traditions / J. Edward Chamberlin
The "repressive tolerance" of cultural peripheries / Asha Varadharajan
Processes of decolonization / Poka Laenui (Hayden F. Burgess)
Postcolonial ledger drawing : legal reform / James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson
Invoking international law / Ted Moses
Southern door : visioning the indigenous renaissance
Indigenous knowledge : the Pueblo metaphor of indigenous education / Gregory Cajete
Maintaining aboriginal identity, language, and culture in modern society / Marie Battiste
Protecting and respecting indigenous knowledge / Graham Hingangaroa Smith
Kaupapa Maori research / Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith
Ayukpachi : empowering aboriginal thought / James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.