The Pandemic: Indigenous Perspectives on Survival, Adaptation, Rebuilding, and Preparedness

Statement released by Chief Ricardo Bharath Hernandez, Santa Rosa First Peoples Community, Arima, Trinidad & Tobago, June 16, 2020. As Amerindians/Indigenous Peoples in the Caribbean, we are historically well acquainted with a series of epidemics and pandemics. We therefore have a lot of historical experience in suffering and surviving from both local epidemics and regional […]

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Indigenous Decolonization

From the blog, “Gazing Westward”:  Regarding, Cobb, Amanda J. “Powerful Medicine: The Rhetoric of Comanche Activist LaDonna Harris.” SAIL 18.4 (2006): 63-85. Cobb’s article defines LaDonna Harris as a Native American rhetorician who ultimately offers a rhetoric of decolonization through her insistence that all understanding, communication, and change comes through cultural values – in her […]

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