Resources
A reflective deck of cards created from this project. The questions are by Indigenous (Cree) scholar Cash Ahenakew, the artwork by Mikmaq artist Lorne A. Julien and finally the design is by Kyra Fay.
They are not sold for profit but with the intent to share reflective tools. The price is for production and a contribution to a fundraising campaign with Indigenous communities in South America we are in relationship with. You can see it here : https://www.gofundme.com/f/south-american-indigenous-network-emergency-fund
Towards Scarring our Collective Soul Wound (2019), by Cash Ahenakew with a foreword by Elwood Jimmy, Vanessa Andreotti, and Sharon Stein, continues the work of Towards Braiding and speaks to how different sensibilities relate to pain. Using the Sun Dance ceremony to center the work, Ahenakew gestures to alternative forms of healing that engage an understanding of our separation from the wider metabolism of which we form a part.
The Cartographies of Aging have been created and are being stewarded by Jocelyn Yerxa, Steeven Pedneault, Mo Drescher and Rachel Derrah. Working with the methodologies and practices of the GTDF collective they took a deeper dive into decolonial practices through the lense of aging. One of the results is the creation of this project and creative social cartographies.
Part of the work of the GTDF collective has been around “growing up”. The term is used with reference to sobering up, to owning up and to showing up differently in the world. Previous work in this area includes a collaboration with John Cryer on the Four Mountains story, the Pledge of Generations, which was part of the lastwarning.org campaign of the Federation of the Huni Kui people in the Amazon, and the anti-as*holism memo. At the heart of these collaborations was the insight that education is about “eldering”: supporting and preparing people, since the day they are born, to become good elders and ancestors for all relations, both human and non-human.
Litterature inspiring this project
Aging, precarity, and the struggle for Indigenous elsewheres by Sandy Grande
Strangers in Their Own World: Exploring the Relation Between Cultural Practices and the Health of Older Adults in Native Communities in Chile by Lorena P. Gallardo-Peralta, Esteban Sanchez-Moreno and Vicente Rodiguez-Rodrıguez
Successful ageing in older persons belonging to the Aymara native community: exploring the protective role of psychosocial resources by Lorena P. Gallardo-Peralta, Esteban Sanchez-Moreno
Successful Aging through the Eyes of Alaska Natives: Exploring Generational Differences Among Alaska Natives by Jordan P. Lewis
Expanding the Circle of Knowledge: Reconceptualizing Successful Aging Among North American Older Indigenous Peoples by Jessica E. Pace and Amanda Grenier
The End of Life is an Auspicious Opportunity for Healing: Decolonizing Death and Dying for Urban Indigenous People by Michael Anderson and Gemma Wotick
Toku toa, he toa rangatira: A qualitative investigation of New Zealand Māori end-of-life care customs by Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Rawiri Wharemate, Stella Black, Kathleen Mason, Janine Wiles and Merryn Gott
Overcoming barriers to culturally safe and appropriate dementia care services and supports for Indigenous peoples in Canada by Regine Halseth
and more…