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Clarence and his grandmother pick wild blueberries and meet ant, spider, and fox in a beautiful woodland landscape.
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Rights Remembered
Rights Rememberedis a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla-Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her narrative life experiences, Lummi oral traditions preserved and passed on to her, and the written record of relationships between the United States and the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast to tell the story of settlers, government officials, treaties, reservations, and the colonial relationship between Coast Salish and the white newcomers.Hillaire's autobiography, although written out of frustration with the status of Native peoples in America, is not an expression of anger but rather represents, in her own words, her hope \"for greater justice for Indian people in America, and for reconciliation between Indian and non-Indian Americans, based on recognition of the truths of history.\"Addressed to indigenous and non-Native peoples alike, this is a thoughtful call for understanding and mutual respect between cultures.
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In Bibi's kitchen : the recipes & stories of grandmothers from the eight African countries that touch the Indian Ocean
\"Grandmothers from eight eastern African countries welcome you into their kitchens to share flavorful recipes and stories of family, love, and tradition in this transporting cookbook-meets-travelogue\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A century of coast Salish history at Lummi
The video, A Century of Coast Salish History, is a digital complement to the published book, Rights Remembered: A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future (University of Nebraska Press, 2016). Material in the video alternates between an interview with Pauline Hillaire, videographed in 2003, and an audio interview, recorded in 2011. The 2011 audio interview forms the soundtrack of an oral history narration accompanied by images of life at Lummi over the course of a century, beginning in 1911. The images were selected from Hillaire’s personal archives and from several institutional archives. They offer a glimpse into the changes –and the continuity– of life on the Lummi Reservation throughout the twentieth century. Hillaire opens the video singing “Red Cedar Tree Song,†and she discusses her family life. Other topics include language loss, Chinuk Wawa (Chinook Jargon), the North Pacific Coastal region, Joseph Hillaire (Joe Hillaire), Edna Hillaire (Edna Price Hillaire Scott), marriage customs, motherhood, native regalia, the Setting Sun Dancers, Frank Hillaire (Haeteluk), U.S. Indian policy, Children of the Setting Sun Dancers, Benjamin Covington (Cuth Sells), Emma Balch, longhouses, Duwamish et al. v. U.S. (1927), Lummi Tribes of Indians v. U.S. (1951, affirmed 1972), repression of ceremonial gatherings, shovelnose canoe, food, seafood, salmon, fishing, reefnet canoes, smokehouses, sacred sxwaixwe masks, Mary Ellen Hillaire, education, Longhouse Education and Cultural Center, Evergreen State College, deer, xexmein, Indian Consumption Plant, Wild Celery, colonialism, the Lummi flag, Scott Kadach’Äak’u Jensen, Deborah Covington Paul (Hae’til’wit II), Western Washington University, the Iraq War (2003-2011), WWII, U.S. armed services, veterans, alcohol, prohibition, trade, rum, cotton, silk, velvet, fish, furs, survival, Indian-white relations, and the environment. Persons who appear in the photographs include Rebecca Chamberlain of Evergreen State College, Robin Wright of the Burke Museum at the University of Washington, Anna Halla (Tlingit), Mary Wagner (Saanich), Gregory Fields of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, carver Scott Jensen of Bellingham, artist Courtney Jensen of Bellingham, and Barbara Brotherton of the Seattle Art Museum. Among the final images are the Children of the Setting Sun, dancing in Pauline's honor in Washington, D.C. in 2013, when she was named the Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellow.
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The storyteller's secret : a novel
Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's former servant and trusted confidant -- who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya's pioneering grandmother during the British occupation. Through her courageous grandmother's arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible. -- from book jacket.
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The 'ART' of Production: Understanding Motherhood Beyond Biological Destiny
This article examines how the technological intervention of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)(3) has had a profound impact on the sociocultural practices surrounding motherhood in India. The experience of motherhood has now been divided among different individuals: the genetic mother, the gestational mother, and the social mother. This expansion of motherhood roles has led to the re-emergence of co-mothering practices, where a child is nurtured by someone other than the birth mother. As nuclear heteronormative families became the norm in India, traditional co-mothering by grandmothers and aunts went out of practice. With rising infertility and the rearrangement of familial structures through single and queer parenting, ART treatments have become socially endorsed alternatives. This article examines the representation of ART-enabled mothering in Bollywood to understand its reception and practice in the Indian sociocultural context. Through a thematic analysis of Filhaal (dir. Gulzar, 2002), Good Newwz (dir. Mehta, 2019), and Mimi (dir. Utekar, 2021), this article explores how the biological experience of motherhood is being reinterpreted by mothers, and how they navigate the stigma associated with infertility and non-biological mothering. Most importantly, this article probes how traditional family structure and gender roles are being restructured following the advent of ART-enabled motherhood.
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Of grandmothers and culinary realms in Salt and Pepper and Silver Linings: Celebrating our Grandmothers
Literary works of all kinds, particularly those categorised as life writings, have explored and narrativized poignant memories of grandmothers and their comfort cuisines. This article examines the relationship between food and grandmothers in Salt and Pepper and Silver Linings: Celebrating our Grandmothers (2019) by Abhirami Girija Sriram and Babitha Marina Justin, a compilation of bittersweet memories of forty-four young women about their grandmothers. Despite the cultural differences, what is common in all the writings are anecdotes of grandmothers cooking, feeding or eating. These accounts of the daily labour of food preparations are not merely fond recollections of childhood memories. Rather, they serve as narratives that shed light on the presence of social, cultural and gender disparities that dictate the assignment of food responsibilities and food obligations to femininity and its effects in the lives of older women. This essay, therefore, is an attempt to analyse the 'gender performativity' of the grandmothers especially through the means of food. It also looks into the culinary habits of the grandmothers which granted them a sense of empowerment when coupled with the privileges of their age and the culinary metaphors employed to convey the same. The paper further explores the elements of 'culinary nostalgia' in the book and the features that categorise it as a 'feminised food memoir' based on the concepts by Mark Swislocki and Nandini Dhar respectively.
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Revisiting the Hopi Boarding School Experience at Sherman Institute and the Process of Making Research Meaningful to Community
In the early 1900s, U.S. government officials began sending Hopi pupils from northeastern Arizona to Sherman Institute, an off-reservation Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. At Sherman, the Hopi pupils received instruction in several disciplines and occupations, including language arts, math, industrial work, and domestic training. While the author of this essay has published extensively on Hopis at Sherman in the past, he uses this opportunity to revisit the topic by describing the path he took to study this history in graduate school. Relying on personal recollections, secondary sources, historical newspaper accounts, and interviews he conducted with former Hopi students, the author highlights the ways his research moved beyond the archive and into village communities to create a history that was both useful and meaningful for his people.
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“I too call myself I”: Madhavikutty-Kamala Das and the Intransitive Autobiography
This paper scrutinizes some of our most enduring assumptions about the genre of autobiography. More particularly, it examines the predicative links, the transitivities, which bind
notions of self-life-and-writing. It comes to this exercise through a reading of Madhavikutty-Kamala Das’ Balyakala Smaranakal (Memories of a Childhood) (1987).
This autobiography promises to trace the self from its incipience—only to side-step the self’s emergence and to hide this deferral in plain sight. The paper argues that
Balyakala Smaranakal (BS) uses our expectations of the genre and our presumptions about the writer—particularly her abiding preoccupation with
self-production—as accomplices. It invites us to witness the textual densities which the child-protagonist gathers and then deploys these strategies to un-do the self’s emergence.
By deferring the production of the self BS stages the autobiography as “intransitive”. This paper goes some way in examining the reasons why it becomes impossible for BS to produce
a legible self; for the child-protagonist to step into the social category that it summons forth. It examines the formal as well as socio-historical conditions within which this
autobiography becomes the place of self-postponement—rather than of self-presentation and self-actualization.
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American Indian Grand Families: A Qualitative Study Conducted with Grandmothers and Grandfathers Who Provide Sole Care for Their Grandchildren
A qualitative study was conducted to determine the rationale for 31 American Indian grandparents’ who provide sole care of their grandchildren, the impact of historical trauma on their decision making process in accessing services, the value of American Indian Child Welfare policies in addressing care issues, and custody status of the grand families. Indian Outreach Workers, Community Health Representatives, Elder Program Directors, and tribal community leaders were key in the recruitment of participants. The grandparents were informed of the purpose of the study and participated in face-to-face, paper and pencil, individual interviews. The subjects included 29 grandmothers and two grandfathers; age 43–86 years, with 20 who lived off reservation land and 11 who lived on reservation land in Michigan. A phenomenological approach of the “world of the lived experience” informed the design of the study. The researchers recorded the subjects’ responses via field notes, conducted a comparison of responses to assess internal reliability, and entered the responses into the qualitative data analysis Nvivo program. Findings included; (1) reasons for providing sole care of grandchildren (2) stressors and rewards of providing sole care (3) grandparents decisions affected by historical traumas which focused on the boarding school issues and the removal of children from their homes due to cultural differences causing a reluctance to seek and access national and state programs (4) grandparents preference was to seek and access services provided by their Tribal Nations, and/or American Indian urban agencies (5) most lacked legal custodial status which is an indicator the grandparents’ may have benefited from knowledge of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
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