Description
Indigenous cultures meticulously protect and preserve their traditions. Those traditions often have deep connections to the homelands of indigenous peoples, thus forming strong relationships between culture, land, and communities. Autoethnography can help shed light on the nature and complexity of these relationships.
Indigenous Research of Land, Self, and Spirit is a collection of innovative research that focuses on the ties between indigenous cultures and the constructs of land as self and agency. It also covers critical intersectional, feminist, and heuristic inquiries across a variety of indigenous peoples. Highlighting a broad range of topics including environmental studies, land rights, and storytelling, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, academicians, students, and researchers in the fields of sociology, diversity, anthropology, environmentalism, and history.
Reviews and Testimonials
I authored two chapters in the book Indigenous Research of Land, Self, and Spirit: Chapter 9, A Critical Review of the Native American Tradition of Circle Practices, and Chapter 12, Intergenerational Trauma and Other Unique Challenges as Barriers to Native American Educational Success. It is imperative to understand the roots of the practice of Talking Circles in Native communities as Restorative Justice continues to grow around the globe. Understanding intergenerational trauma and how to overcome it with intergenerational resilience is important to recognize as we as a society heal and build a more just and equitable future. These passages in Indigenous Research of Land, Self, and Spirit are informative in acknowledging Native peoples in the social sciences.
– Thomas Reed, Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, California State University, USA
Author's/Editor's Biography
Robin Throne (Ed.)
Robin Throne, PhD, is a research methodologist and dissertation supervisor for the University of the Cumberlands. Her research agenda continues to consider doctoral researcher positionality and agency, and voice and land dispossession from various social justice research approaches. She is the author of Autoethnography and Heuristic Inquiry for Doctoral-Level Researchers: Emerging Research and Opportunities (IGI Global, 2019), editor of Practice-Based and Practice-Led Research for Dissertation Development (IGI Global, 2021), and a non-indigenous researcher/member of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission Research Consortium.