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.... back to that place with no name  ….

   INDIGENOUS   WAYS   OF   KNOWING 

 

Prepared by:  LauraLee K. Harris for Galleries and Museums

lauralee@lauraleekharris.com

 

 

”…individuals and society can be transformed by identifying and reaffirming learning processes based on subjective experiences and introspection.”  Willie Ermine

 

Aims and Objectives:   

 

To Educate: 

  • addressing the question of the pedagogical practices of creating arts in ways that interweave with and  intervene into the fabric of everyday life,
    • where education is not separate from living,
    • where spirituality  and   meaning are part of the doing
    • where the subjective ways of creating and seeing from the inside were the ways of teaching  from the time before assimilation.
  • about the subjective inwardness of understanding self to be ways of healing
  • about the many levels of loss occurring within the Indigenous Community though Identity.  

      To Inspire: 

  • ways of seeing the world through subconsciousness
  • to finding meaning in one’s own life as  a means of learning of oneself through experience, 
  • understanding the Indigenous way of seeing is from the inside out, empowering one to know that each one of us has a universe of knowledge inside making life a place of purposeful adventure of ones own creation,
  • the understanding that each of us can leave behind their own knowledge for others to learn from. 

    

To Raise Awareness:

  • of another way of seeing: an inward way in which to live as an holistic healthy productive human being 
  • to what was first seen as unimportant ways of living as being instrumental to holism,
  • that living one’s life on the wind is trusting the universe, oneself, finding instinct and intuitiveness and wholeness inclusive of the spirit and emotional truths as well as the physical and intellectual ones that comprise the human being as a whole being. 
  • to the holistic way of seeing life and self as a form of healing: to how important it is for an Indigenous Person to find oneself and one’s roots to co-exist and heal within Indigenous communities; which is a community oriented society.   

Audience:   

  • Schools 
  • Family Groups 
  • Tourists and Internationals
  • Other Indigenous peoples searching for family 
  • Spiritualists  Artists, Writers, Everyone Exhibition

Contents:    32 – 44 Paintings of various sizes     

                Poetry mounted on museum board  

Education Plans and Ideas:  

  • To read poetry
  • To do an artist talk which speaks to the Indigenous Ways in which I see and work 

Merchandising Opportunities: 

125 page colour book/catalogue of paintings and poetry, currently selling in galleries at $35.95, My cost $22.00 

Budget: Cost of Shipping and Crating and mounting poetry on board

Excerpts: 

Because a lot has been lost of the Indigenous Cultures, and that Aboriginal Epistemology is not understood in schools and education facilities, I refer to Indigenous Educators to give a framework around this ‘unique’ work.

Cree Elder and Scholar: Willie Ermine at Saskatchewan Indian Federated College
From the Book: First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds Excerpts by Willie Ermine - Cree Elder and Scholar, Edited By Marie Ann Battiste, Jean Barman, UBC Press Vancouver
First Nations Education in Canada – The Circle Unfolds, by Willie Ermine - Cree Elder, Edited By Marie Ann Battiste, Jean Barman 

 

Judy Iseke-Barnes : Journal of Intercultural Studies
Metis Associate Professor: Dr. Judy Iseke-Barnes at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto


Castellano (2000, p.29) provides an excerpt of the Royal commission on Indigenous Peoples Report (1999, pp. 622-623) which describes the experiential nature of knowledge.C ASTELLANO , M.B. (2000) Updating Indigenous traditions of knowledge, in: G.J.S. D EI , B.L.H ALL & D.G. R OSENBERG (Eds) Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts: multiple readingsof our world, pp. 21–36 (Toronto, University of Toronto Press)

Dennis Dutton’s “The Art Instinct – Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution” Bloomsbury Press New York . Berlin. London