ȽÁU, NOṈET SXEDQIṈEȽ - Healing House post (totem pole): Addressing Indigenous specific systemic racism with ancestral knowledge and matriarchal wisdom

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dc.contributor.authorUnderwood, Tracy
dc.contributor.supervisorWright Cardinal, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T22:07:17Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T22:07:17Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Care
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy PhD
dc.description.abstractMy doctoral project, ȽÁU,NOṈET SXEDQIṈEȽ - Healing House Post (Totem Pole): Addressing Indigenous specific systemic racism with ancestral knowledge and matriarchal wisdom, consists of an Indigenous Healing Framework which finds expression in the raised form of a WSÁNEĆ Healing House Post/Totem. My overall research question is: How do QENÁȽ LÁ,ET SȽÁNI W̱SÁNEĆ heal from systemic anti-Indigenous racism? ȽÁU,NOṈET SXEDQIṈEȽ (Healing House Post) responds both conceptually and practically to the ongoing damage inflicted on our peoples through prejudice, dehumanization, and systemic racism – all too familiar to survivors of colonization. The house post is comprised of four sections: KELȽOLEMEĆEN Orca whale: Life before europeans; SPÁ¸EŦ Bear: To give and receive acknowledgement; WEXES Frogs: Reconstruction within Canadian Systems – Persistent Dehumanizing Trauma Theory/Response Theory; and QELEṈSEN Eagle: Healing vision. Each section has stories that frame my epistemology embedded with my Matriarchal roots in WSÁNEĆ. All are connected to the QELEṈSEN Healing Vison of Eagle at the top of the House Post, which will speak healing pathways in response to the anti-Indigenous racism in the systems we live and work within that were not created for us. The Healing House post transitions from theory to practice through its material representation of both decolonizing resistance and culturally specific WSÁNEĆ pathways to healing. The result is storytelling from my Matriarchal teachings, which came from traditional ways of knowing and being that are the reasons why we are still here. It does this by addressing Indigenous-specific systemic racism with Ancestral knowledge and QENÁȽ LÁ,ET SȽÁNI (Matriarch) teachings that speak to Matriarchal wisdom derived from my advocacy for and protection of my children, family, and community members.
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduate
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/20923
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectW̱SÁNEĆ
dc.subjectHealing House post
dc.subjectIndigenous specific systemic racism
dc.subjectAncestral knowledge
dc.subjectMartriarchal wisdom
dc.titleȽÁU, NOṈET SXEDQIṈEȽ - Healing House post (totem pole): Addressing Indigenous specific systemic racism with ancestral knowledge and matriarchal wisdom
dc.title.alternativeHealing House post
dc.typeThesis

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