Remembering the Pathway: A Cultural Perspective on Contemporary American Indian Youth

回憶歷史路徑─賦予現代美國印第安年輕人的一個文化觀點

10.29910/TJIS.200909.0003

Lisa Poupart

美國印地安年輕人 ； 去殖民化 ； 教育 ； American Indian youth ； decolonization ； education

台灣原住民族研究季刊

2卷3期（2009 / 09 / 01）

61 - 84

英文

在北美第一民族（原住民族）的傳統文化裡頭，孩童在他們的社區是有價值的成員，對他們的家庭以及天地萬物是很重要的；孩童們學習他們如何被尊敬，同時間也學習如何去尊敬其他的生命。對今天多數的部落社區而言，殖民化的過程以及全球單一文化的擴張持續侵蝕共享社區的價值，也就是承認各個生命之間的關係。隨著部落民眾愈來愈被同化於西方資本經濟的秩序下，美國的印第安兒童持續遭遇到令人吃驚的高比率自殺以及物質濫用情形。美國印第安族群必須知道我們已經被優勢文化支配制度制度化的範圍，如此才能瞭解他們如何以此方式侵犯並壓迫我們在自己的部落社會、政府、企業以及社區中，並進而阻止此方式持續對部落社會的傷害程度。因此，去殖民化模式必須被建立並應用在很多不同的層級，也讓部落民眾能夠從殖民化中治癒起來，而去殖民化的主要關鍵在於在教育結構中回復傳統文化的價值及生活的方式。

In traditional First Nations (indigenous) cultures in North American children are valued members of their communities, important to their families and to the universe of all living things. Children learn that they are honored and respected while they learn honor and respect for other beings. For many tribal communities today, the shared community values recognizing the relationship of all living things continues to erode with the on-going processes of colonization and the expansion of a global monoculture. American Indian child continue to experience startling rates of victimization, suicide, and substance abuse as tribal people are further assimilated into the western capitalist economic order. In order to address the extent of harms that continue to envelope tribal communities, American Indian people must openly recognize the extent to which we have internalized dominant culture hierarchies of domination and oppression and recreate them in our own homes, governments, businesses, and communities. Models of decolonization must be created and applied on these many levels in order for tribal people to heal from colonization. Key to decolonization is drawing upon education structures to revitalize traditional cultural values and life ways.

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