EthnoautobiographyStanley Krippner! Chapter 0, Let’s Have a Conversation! Chapter 1, Who Am I?! Chapter 2, The Self – Now Larger, Now Smaller! Chapter 3, Why Not Simply ‘Autobiography’?!

Jürgen & R

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Preface

Stanley Krippner

Chapter 0, Let’s Have a Conversation

Chapter 1, Who Am I?

Chapter 2, The Self – Now Larger, Now Smaller

Chapter 3, Why Not Simply ‘Autobiography’?

Chapter 4, Ethnoautobiography Defined

Chapter 5, We Are Moral Beings

Chapter 6, Community and Communitas

Chapter 7, Where Am I? Ethnoautobiography as Gateway to Place

Chapter 8, Connecting Nature, Self and History

Chapter 9, History – Memory and Imagination

Chapter 10, Mythic Stories

Chapter 11, Who Are My Ancestors?

Chapter 12, En/gendering Embodied Ethnoautobiography

Chapter 13, Gathering Ourselves Through Dreams

Chapter 14, Faith, Spirituality, Skepticism

Chapter 15, To Tell a Story …

Chapter 16, Healing Ourselves – Healing Others

Chapter 17, Continuing the Conversation

Ethnoautobiography !Stories and Practices for Unlearning Whiteness, Decolonization,

Uncovering Ethnicities!by Jürgen Werner Kremer and R Jackson-Paton

This interdisciplinary textbook with exercises is designed for undergraduate classes exploring issues of identity and multiculturalism. Each chapter focuses on one major theme important in the process of identity construction and narration. It includes a glossary of key terms, activities, additional resources, and autobiographical statements by the authors.

Decolonizing is thus not just the recovery of the memory traces of Indigenous identities in all of us, but a creative psycho-spiritual, moral, political and activist endeavor. First and foremost, decolonization must turn its gaze to the center of colonial processes, Europe, and interrupt the process of our self-colonization.

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Stories and Practices for Unlearning Whiteness, Decolonization, Uncovering Ethnicities

Throughout the book free verse riffs serve as personal narratives upon which the chapters are woven. For example:

Chapter 0, So You Really Want to Know Who I Am?

Chapter 1, No Longer a Teen

Chapter 3, I Am a White Man

Chapter 4, The Old Ones Would Say

Chapter 5, Nazis in the Closet

Chapter 6, Looking for Cynthia Ann Parker

Chapter 7, Coaquannok — The Place of the Long Trees

Chapter 8, Timbisha Transformations

Chapter 9, To Sand Creek

Chapter 10, Mythic Tricksters at Play

Chapter 11, Ancestral Imaginings

Chapter 12, Lessons from Staff Sargent Harley

Chapter 14, Indigenous...Science

Chapter 15, Homecoming

Chapter 17, Bardic Resolutions

To tell our story in the proper way means imagining ourselves with something resembling an Indigenous process of awareness – the freedom to be an artist aware of Indigenous roots.

Sample activities:

Self-introduction: Who are you, culturally speaking? Who are your ancestors?

!Visualizing settlement: Guided visualization highlighting forgotten, or denied, aspects of self and society.

!Una ofrenda, or ancestral collage:

Create a visual representation of people, places and items from your ancestry.

!Composing ethnoautobiography:

Bring an artifact and share a real or imagined story.

!Mythological narration: Research and summarize a mythological story from your ancestral origins.

!Making pilgrimages: Research about a place in the United States where it is appropriate to make a pilgrimage as a consequence of settlement, violence, genocide, slavery, etc.

!Council of all ancestors: Visualization to connect with one of your ancestors, and reflect on the current state of affairs in our society.

Key terms include:

Amer-European

Critical, Indigenous inquiry

Cultural ecology

Decolonization

Eurocentered

Genealogical imagination

Genocide

Radical, or Indigenous presence

Recovery of Indigenous mind

Restor(y)ing

Settlement privilege

Survivance

White mind

White privilege

Bronze age rock carving, Northern Bohuslän, Sweden

1500 - 500 BCE

Members of dominant societies may make a courageous choice to imagine themselves with their dreams in a particular time, place, and community, recollect their ancestral lines, and confront histories of supremacy.

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