Jordan’s Principle is a legal requirement for the Canadian government to address gaps in services for First Nations children and ensure timely services that meet their needs and best interests. This article synthesizes and discusses some of the key research findings described in a report on the implementation of Jordan’s Principle in Manitoba, produced by a team of academic researchers in partnership with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. Findings provide insights into a relational approach to the implementation of Jordan’s Principle and inter-related structural factors that constrain the efficacy of this approach. Findings reinforce the need for First Nations–led processes and Jordan’s Principle policies that fully fund and support First Nations in addressing high caseloads and growing waiting lists, complex responsibilities, stress and staff turnover, administrative burden, and inadequate physical and digital infrastructure. Sufficient resources for First Nations capacity enhancement initiatives and regional coordination and support are also identified priorities.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1177/11771801241255390
Lisa G Byers
This autoethnography explored an ethical dilemma for an Indigenous investigator involved in a study of adult Indigenous boarding school survivors. As research team members coded post-traumatic stress disorder for an interview, the author was at an ethical crossroads that involved betrayal, stigma, oppression, and within-group diversity. The author deemed that the interview was an expression of culturally sanctioned behavior versus mental illness. The author had been taught not to discuss the cultural experience portrayed in the interview with outsiders based on stigma and oppression within American society. Intersectionality provides the framework to understand this ethical dilemma and provides tools that can assist future Indigenous researchers involved in the study of their own people.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1177/11771801241253228
Andrew Farrell
Drag as an enduring artform has reached the masses through the hit reality television show RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009–2024). This article explores an intimate reflection on the series through the lens of a queer Aboriginal person who is both a fan and practitioner of the art of drag. Beyond the scope of niche fandoms at queer margins, this letter points to the violent and liberatory entanglements generated by the mainstreaming of drag.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1177/11771801241255145
Bronwyn Carlson
Total Control (2019–2024) is a political drama that follows the story of Rachel Griffiths as the prime minister of so-called Australia and Deborah Mailman as her political rival. Available on demand on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) iView, Total Control was initially called “Black Bitch” to draw attention to the historical racial slur but was forced to change its title due to a social media storm. Total Control demonstrates striking parallels with the treatment of real-life Indigenous women in politics. This article looks at the role of social media as a platform that provides a way for Indigenous women to engage in public politics. It discusses these technologies as providing settlers with the means to publicly malign Indigenous women. It draws from research on the use and abuse of social media in relation to Indigenous users and is underscored by the blurred boundary between fiction and non-fiction Indigenous realities.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1177/11771801241256115
Madi Day, Corrinne T Sullivan
This is the introductory article for the special issue “Indigenous peoples, digital leisure, and popular culture”. Following the 2016 issue of AlterNative edited by Michelle Harris and Bronwyn Carlson “Indigenous people, popular pleasure and the everyday”, this article comments on the continued influence of the former issue and offers some new commentary on Indigenous popular and digital leisure today.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1177/11771801241255697
Aili Pyhälä
With rising concerns over the failed outcomes of global conservation strategies and the militarization of environmental monitoring and enforcement, there is an urgent need for decolonizing nature conservation. This article examines the position of Indigenous peoples as rights-and-knowledge-holders in this discourse and the vital role they play in biodiversity conservation globally. I present a 2018 case study of the Kogui Indigenous peoples of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, one of the last remaining examples of a sustainable biocultural system. My results demonstrate that the success of the Kogui is largely defined by their: (a) nature-based cosmovision, (b) strong cultural identity related to that cosmovision, and (c) functioning governance system ordered by Natural Law. These findings stand as beacons to reframe the nature conservation paradigm and help humanity re-find and re-connect with our place in, and relationship with, both the material and non-material worlds.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1177/11771801241251862
Oladimeji Idowu Oladele, Augustine Amara
The qualitative analysis of farmers’ use of Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation across farming systems and agroecological zones of Sierra Leone was conducted using a combination of interpretive phenomenological analysis, Focus Group Discussions, and participant observation, which was analyzed with a qualitative interpretative approach. Farmers respond to climate change through the use of wind and cloud patterns, animal and bird behavior, moon shape, and position of the sun to predict changes in temperature, intensity, drying up of rivers, and frequency of rainfall, as well as the incidence of pests and diseases. Other Indigenous knowledge used by farmers were rotational grazing, migration, crop-livestock integration, and the use of manure for composting with herbal and biological treatment for disease management. The study recommended that in the current context of climate change, the promotion of adaptation strategies should explore the interdependency of different knowledge systems and knowledge hybridity in agriculture.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1177/11771801241251428
Tania Cliffe-Tautari (Te Arawa, Ngāi Tahu)
Rangatahi Māori (Māori youth, Indigenous people of New Zealand) are grossly over-represented in youth court statistics compared to other ethnicities (63%). Despite these statistics, research into cultural identity is sparse. This article presents recent PhD findings with 10 rangatahi Māori sentenced for offending behaviours, appearing in a New Zealand Youth Court or Ngā Kōti Rangatahi (Māori cultural led Youth Court). Findings indicated that whakapapa (genealogical) connections, te reo Māori (the Māori language), and culture influence a positive cultural identity and cultural pride in rangatahi Māori. Whānau (family) relationships support the transmission of cultural knowledge and remain pivotal to feeling culturally connected. In this PhD study, cultural pride enabled the participants to navigate systemic bias, racial profiling, and negative societal attitudes. These findings quash the deficit cultural disconnection trope and disrupt pathological crime narratives that Māori youth who offend are disconnected, dislocated, and disassociated from their cultural identity as Māori.
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Trash Tiddas is a podcast about Blak—a reclaiming of Black from English as a colonising language, and used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people—Millennial life and culture produced by First Nations digital content platform Awesome Black. In this article, the hosts Tully DeVries, Amy LF and Brooke Scobie speak with Madi Day about the cultural significance of Brooke Blurton’s season as Australia’s first Blachelorette—Blak, queer Bachelorette. The authors discuss Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander presence and absence in Australian reality TV, and the rigid behavioural standards imposed on Blak participants on reality TV dating shows. In doing so, we identify a pattern of refusal of colonial norms in alternative Blak millennial content and how humour is used by Blak women and queer millennials in the face of White propriety and colonial impositions on Blak love and lives.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-09DOI: 10.1177/11771801241248853
Sarah Demekech Graham
By referring to the White settler post-racial imaginary of the USA, this article examines the slippage, transferability, and political interplay of racial representations into an analysis of the character of Ruth Langmore, a White adolescent woman portrayed in the Netflix series Ozark (2017–2022). Establishing the history of popular culture in the USA as emergent from Blackface, I argue that Ruth is coded, through an eschatological association, fashion styling, and ambient sound, as Black at various points throughout the series. I analyse screengrabs from pop culture and quotes from the showrunner, executive directors, and musical director to demonstrate that the destruction of the Black body is inherited, restricting the survival of Black and Indigenous peoples. Readers are advised that this article contains spoilers about the series Ozark (2017–2022).
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