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July 6, 2023

Sand Talk How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World [Audiobook]

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Free Download Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Sept 8, 2021 | English | ASIN: B09DQ47DL3 | 8 hrs 20 mins | M4B & MP3@126 kbps | 502 to 507 MB | Unabridged | Retail
Author: Tyson Yunkaporta | Narrator: Tyson Yunkaporta
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power and sustainability – and offers a new template for living.

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July 3, 2023

Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence A Worlded Philosophy

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Free Download Carl Mika, "Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A Worlded Philosophy "
English | ISBN: 1138846309 | 2017 | 176 pages | PDF | 670 KB
Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A worlded philosophy explores a notion of education called ‘worldedness’ that sits at the core of indigenous philosophy. This is the idea that any one thing is constituted by all others and is, therefore, educational to the extent that it is formational. A suggested opposite of this indigenous philosophy is the metaphysics of presence, which describes the tendency in dominant Western philosophy to privilege presence over absence. This book compares these competing philosophies and argues that, even though the metaphysics of presence and the formational notion of education are at odds with each other, they also constitute each other from an indigenous worlded philosophical viewpoint.

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July 1, 2023

Reading the Illegible Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes

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Free Download Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes by Laura Leon Llerena
English | January 10, 2023 | ISBN: 081654753X | 264 pages | EPUB | 3.20 Mb
Reading the Illegible examines the history of alphabetic writing in early colonial Peru, deconstructing the conventional notion of literacy as a weapon of the colonizer. This book develops the concept of legibility, which allows for an in-depth analysis of coexisting Andean and non-Native media. The book discusses the stories surrounding the creation of the Huarochirí Manuscript (c. 1598-1608), the only surviving book-length text written by Indigenous people in Quechua in the early colonial period. The manuscript has been deemed "untranslatable in all the usual senses," but scholar Laura Leon Llerena argues that it offers an important window into the meaning of legibility.

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June 29, 2023

Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines Decolonizing Ifugao History

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Free Download Stephen Acabado, "Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines: Decolonizing Ifugao History"
English | ISBN: 0816545022 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Dominant historical narratives among cultures with long and enduring colonial experiences often ignore Indigenous histories. This erasure is a response to the colonial experiences. With diverse cultures like those in the Philippines, dominant groups may become assimilationists themselves. Collaborative archaeology is an important tool in correcting the historical record. In the northern Philippines, archaeological investigations in Ifugao have established more recent origins of the Cordillera Rice Terraces, which were once understood to be at least two thousand years old. This new research not only sheds light on this UNESCO World Heritage site but also illuminates how collaboration with Indigenous communities is critical to understanding their history and heritage.

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June 27, 2023

The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America Their Societies, Cultures, and Histories

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Free Download Robert M. Carmack, "The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America: Their Societies, Cultures, and Histories"
English | ISBN: 1498558968 | 2017 | 154 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America, Robert Carmack focuses on K’iche’ natives of Guatemala, Masayan peoples of Nicaragua, and the native peoples of Buenos Aires and Costa Rica. Starting with Christopher Columbus’ proclaimed "discovery" of Central America, Carmack illustrates the Central American native peoples’ dramatic struggles for survival, native languages, and unique communities and states. Carmack draws on the fieldwork that he has conducted over the past fifty years to highlight the diversity of the Central American peoples, cultures, and histories, and to explain their significance relative to other native peoples of the world. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, history, and sociology

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June 26, 2023

Indigenous Technology Knowledge Systems

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Free Download Indigenous Technology Knowledge Systems: Decolonizing the Technology Education Curriculum
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819913950 | 592 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 27 MB
There has been a growing interest in indigenous knowledge systems and research. This interest has been mainly triggered by the need to decolonize education as a response to the colonial onslaught on indigenous knowledge and people. Research has, however, concentrated on the generality of the indigenous knowledge system rather than on its related dimensions. One area that has suffered a lack of attention is indigenous conceptions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) despite the unquestionable evidence of STEM in indigenous contexts. Most STEM is presented by colonial establishments and representations, especially in developed/modern/urban contexts, which portray STEM as a colonial construct.

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