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Indigenous disability studies / edited by John T. Ward.

"This book provides a comprehensive approach to the perspectives, lived experiences, and socio-cultural beliefs of Indigenous scholars regarding disabilities through a distinctions-based approach. Indigenous people demonstrate considerable knowledge in a multitude of compacities in spite of leg...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Ward, John T. (Disability expert) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Subjects:
People with disabilities.
Indigenous peoples.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / John T. Ward
  • The colonial education system : teaching Indigenous children with learning differences / Elder Annie Smith St-Georges
  • St. Anne's Indian Residential School : how labelling contributed to disabilities / Elder Peter Nakoochee
  • Interpreting disabilities from a Mohawk perspective : elder guidance when navigating the dreamworld / Elder Tom Dearhouse
  • Disability interpretation from colonial insight to Indigenous spirituality : a Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw realization / Chief Phil Jane J
  • An Eskimo's lived experience of disabilities : elder, advocate, leader, and dialogue builder / Elder Percy Ballot
  • Perspectives of disability in the Yukpa peoples of Venezuela and Colombia from an Indigenous psychological perspective / Elder Rodolfo Andres Jauregui Ojeda
  • To see or not to see : am I blind or is that just another colonial label / Kevin Morgan
  • Reframing the narrative : navigating self-representation : Indigenous deaf people / Melanie McKay-Cody
  • Neurodiversity from an Indigenous perspective : honouring the seven grandfather teachings / Lexi (Giizhigokwe) Nahwegiizhic
  • Navigating my Indigeneity through colonialism and how disabilities impacted my knowledge systems : a Muiscas and Teusacá experience / Angela Patricia Mora Rodriguez
  • Navigating disabilities from a Mauritius perspective / Vijaye Lutchmee Davi Jaypal
  • Reframing the narratives of Indigenous person with disabilities and creating inclusive spaces through advocacy / Pratima Gurung
  • Old meets new : moving forward with the colonial mindset of disability : a Kabyle perspective / Boussad At Yaagun Djerbid
  • The importance of Indigenous sign languages on the cultural empowerment of deaf Indigenous people / Rodney Adams and John Gilroy
  • Learning from traditional knowledge : Basotho Indigenous epistemology of disability / Maximus Monaheng Sefotho
  • Half Man of Spring Bayou : understanding and living with mild cerebral palsy through traditional Indigenous knowledge / Jean-Luc Pierite
  • The strength, wisdom, and resilience of traditional knowledge as a cultural approach to modern day living in Northern Canada an Inuk perspective / Noah Papatsie
  • From linguistic disability to linguistic diversity case studies of Taiwanese Indigenous peoples / I-Yun Cheng
  • Mushi and Muhavu beliefs, understandings, teachings, and traditional knowledge of disabilities / Carine Sacerdoce Kananga
  • Language structure or a language-based disability (dyslexia) : how natural learning contributed to being disabled / John T. Ward
  • Disability support for Indigenous people : the sweetgrass method / Mark Standing Eagle Baez and Thomas Dirth
  • Indigenous peoples with disabilities in Taiwan : the experiences of Paiwan people / Kui Kasirisir (Hsu, Chun-Tsai)
  • Difference wisdom : reimagining disability dialogue / Lavonna L. Lovern
  • The birth and care of Määt Jääy in a context of structural violence, 'disability" in a Mixe town in Oaxaca / Zoila Romualdo Pérez
  • We belong to you, but you don't represent us a Javanese (Indonesian) experience of disabilities / Umar
  • Understanding Indigenous disabilities : a cultural perspective of Indigenous Pashtun community / Zafar Khan
  • Intersectionalities of Indigenous disabilities : breaking down colonial barriers / John T. Ward
  • Disabilities in Uganda : understanding community challenges and barriers / Twinerugaba Barlton
  • Disabilities in Malawi : a cultural and social perspective as influenced by colonialism / Kennedy Mapira
  • Society's manner towards disabilities : a perspective from India / Manisekhar Palle
  • Taking care of disability people in Kenya / Duke Makori Mogusu
  • Conditions of disabilities in Uganda / Muganga Edison Twinemuhwezi
  • Weaving a human-centric tapestry : a Rwandan perspective / Diane Umuhoza Rudakenga.

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