Rooted in Wonder: Tales of Indigenous Activism and Community Organizing

Historically, Indigenous wisdom and wonder have had a fraught relationship with the fields of folklore and fairy-tale studies, cultural anthropology, and ethnography, with Indigenous knowledges being relegated to folk wisdom or fairy tales as a way to undermine their authority in colonial knowledge...

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Published in:Marvels & tales 2016-01, Vol.30 (1), p.17-21
Main Authors: Kuwada, Bryan Kamaoli, Yamashiro, Aiko
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activists
Agricultural land
Communities
Cultural anthropology
Fairy tales
Fiction
Folklore
Folktales
Keresiouan languages
Literary translation
Native languages
Nonnative languages
Polynesian studies
Power
Science fiction
Social justice
Traditions
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Summary:Historically, Indigenous wisdom and wonder have had a fraught relationship with the fields of folklore and fairy-tale studies, cultural anthropology, and ethnography, with Indigenous knowledges being relegated to folk wisdom or fairy tales as a way to undermine their authority in colonial knowledge systems, to make way for colonial projects of modernization or development on Indigenous lands. Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives foregrounds the importance of memory and stories in Indig-enous struggles for land and sovereignty; Steven Winduo, who recenters the Indigenous in relation to the colonial categories of literary and folk in the service of nation building in Oceania; and Grace Dillon, who advocates for the incorporation of Indigenous "modes of imagination" into genres such as science fiction and fantasy as a commitment to social justice.\n Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada also explores the importance of retelling stories in new and traditional forms through his translation of an 1893 "legendizing" of a contemporary story of heroism.
ISSN:1521-4281
1536-1802
DOI:10.13110/marvelstales.30.1.0017