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Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations Nadia Ferrara

Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations By Nadia Ferrara

Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations by Nadia Ferrara


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Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations: An Applied Anthropological Perspective by Nadia Ferrara

Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations: An Applied Anthropological Perspective presents a unique and honest account of an applied anthropologist's experience in working with Indigenous peoples of Canada. It illustrates Dr. Nadia Ferrara's efforts in reconciliation and rehumanization, showing that it is all about recognizing our shared humanity. In this self-reflective narrative, the author describes her personal experience of marginalization and how it contributed to a more in-depth understanding of how others are marginalized, as well as the fundamental sense of belongingness and connectedness. The book is enriched with stories and insights from her fieldwork as a clinician, a university professor, and a bureaucrat. Dr. Ferrara shows how she has applied her experience as an art therapist in Indigenous communities to her current work in policy development to ensure the policies created reflect their current realities. Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations describes the cultural competency course for public servants Dr. Ferrara is leading, as a means to break down stereotypes and showcase the resilience of Indigenous peoples. She makes a compassionate and urgent call to all North Americans to connect with their responsibility and compassion, and acknowledge the injustices that the original peoples of this land have faced and continue to face. Reconciliation requires concrete action and it starts with the individual's self-reflection, engagement in authentic human-to-human dialogue, learning from one another, and working together towards a better future, all of which is chronicled in this insightful book.

Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations Reviews

Presented through an eclectic assemblage of anecdotes and recollections, Ferrara translates her cathartic individuated efforts to build trust with therapy patients into her performance implementing policy with indigenous communities. The book provides a window into the world of a self-described bureaucrat who perceives herself as an advocate for indigenous people and who views them as individuals contextualized by cultural systems and a history of colonization.... Ethnographers and clinicians working with indigenous communities will find resonance in Ferrara's account of the personal challenges and transformative nature of current practice. Contemporary personal narratives relevant to applied environments are hard to come by, and if read in the context of broader scholarly literatures on reconciliation, this book may be useful in indigenous studies classes and some applied programs in which students will go on to careers in government. * American Anthropologist *
Don't let the 'applied anthropologist' perspective fool you. Nadia Ferrara in her treatise is anything but applying anthropology. Rather she takes the reader through a retrospective journey of life engagements that ebb and flow through enduring communities. The key that she unlocks is a deep respect and appreciation for community development, but in the spirit of what is called Indigenous planning. To paraphrase, it is about using identity and cultural values to inform 'one's competence, self-awareness, and knowledge to build effective relationships.' It begins at first breath and it is nurtured until death. The community embodies that collective history in its worldview and it is through interrelationships across generations that this is nurtured. This is the relationship that the author imparts. It is one that must be heeded. -- Theodore Jojola, University of New Mexico

About Nadia Ferrara

Nadia Ferrara is a senior policy manager in the Government of Canada, Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, where she leads a course in cultural competence for public servants.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Building Bridges Chapter 2: Being the Other Chapter 3: Re-building Trust through Dialogic Exchange Chapter 4: Translating Lived Realities Chapter 5: Personal Lived Reality: Opening of my Self Chapter 6: Engaging in Reconciliation Chapter 7: Ethical Responsibility Chapter 8: Conclusion: Towards Intergenerational Reconciliation Epilogue: Coming Home: Bi-Giiwe Bibliography

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NLS9781498513500
9781498513500
1498513506
Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations: An Applied Anthropological Perspective by Nadia Ferrara
New
Paperback
Lexington Books
2016-08-29
182
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