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Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) Kindle Edition
Michelle M. Jacob employs ethnographic case studies to demonstrate the tension between reclaiming traditional cultural practices and adapting to change. Through interviewees’ narratives, she carefully tacks back and forth between the atrocities of colonization and the remarkable actions of individuals committed to sustaining Yakama heritage. Focusing on three domains of Indigenous revitalization—dance, language, and foods—Jacob carefully elucidates the philosophy underlying and unifying each domain while also illustrating the importance of these practices for Indigenous self-determination, healing, and survival.
In the impassioned voice of a member of the Yakama Nation, Jacob presents a volume that is at once intimate and specific to her home community and that also advances theories of Indigenous decolonization, feminism, and cultural revitalization. Jacob’s theoretical and methodological contributions make this work valuable to a range of students, academics, tribal community members, and professionals, and an essential read for anyone interested in the ways that grassroots activism can transform individual lives, communities, and society.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of Arizona Press
- Publication dateSeptember 26, 2013
- File size1923 KB
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“Yakama Rising makes a unique contribution to Native/Ethnic Studies, American History, Anthropology and applied scholarship; it is neither a personal platform for polemics and exploration of heritage nor is it a disconnected, naïve analysis of people and their practices. It is an intense and robust examination of decolonization, tradition, and survival. There is no other book like it.”—Barbra A. Meek, author of We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community
About the Author
Michelle M. Jacob (Yakama) is an associate professor of ethnic studies and affiliated faculty in sociology at the University of San Diego. She is also the director of the Center for Native Health and Culture at Heritage University on the Yakama Reservation.
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- ASIN : B00ECGI082
- Publisher : University of Arizona Press; First edition (September 26, 2013)
- Publication date : September 26, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 1923 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 152 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,511,272 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #730 in Native American Studies
- #2,231 in Cultural Anthropology (Kindle Store)
- #3,744 in Native American Demographic Studies
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About the author
Michelle M. Jacob is an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation and is currently Professor of Indigenous Studies in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon, where she also serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and Affiliated Faculty in the Environmental Studies Program. Michelle engages in scholarly and activist work that seeks to understand and work toward a holistic sense of health and well-being within Indigenous communities and among allies who wish to engage decolonization. Michelle’s first two books, Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing, and, Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, were published by the University of Arizona Press. Dr. Jacob’s third book, On Indian Ground: A Return to Indigenous Knowledge-Generating Hope, Leadership and Sovereignty through Education in the Northwest, was co-edited with Stephany RunningHawk Johnson, and published by Information Age Publishing. Michelle has numerous articles published in social science, education, and health science research journals, and grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. Her research areas of interest include: Indigenous methodologies, spirituality, health, education, Native feminisms, and decolonization. Michelle is grateful to all her family and friends for their love and support including her many blessed Aunties who inspired her book, The Auntie Way. Michelle's book, Huckleberries and Coyotes, celebrates the generous teachers (human and more than human) who surround us. Michelle's book, Fox Doesn't Wear a Watch, encourages us to deeply reflect upon our relationships with time and place. Dr. Jacob's latest book, Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories, is the 2nd edition, and is a cultural treasure of Yakama peoples, featuring the traditional stories Elders requested be shared in the book.
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2015Dr. Jacob is a brilliant writer, and this book reflects the depth of her personal and intellectual experience with this community. As a tribal member she writes with empathy and insight born of first hand knowledge. As a scholar she frames this experience in light of broader sociological and historical movements. She presents an insightful look at cultural revitalization and healing that everyone interested in American Indian cultures, religions, and healthcare should read. A great choice for students, teachers, and general readers.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2014An excellent, insightful book.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2014Michelle Jacob, a professor of sociology at UCSD, argues that the problems in Native American families can be easily fixed when the tribe acts together. I don’t blame you if you respond to this with “well duh!” and I won’t blame you, because we all heard the saying “it takes the village to raise the child.” But this is different; Native Americans were once a communal society, and since the 1880’s the US (and Canada) have tried to force on them the nuclear family ideal, with private property and general privacy. It doesn’t seem to work.
The first chapter explores how traditional dances, above all else, have had a great impact in steering Native American youth from alcohol and crime. It focuses on a woman named Sue Rigdon, a school counselor who grew up in a dysfunctional family, and founded an extracurricular group to teach traditional dancing to kids in Washington State. Others are making efforts to have kids learn the language to that it won’t die out. If that’s not enough, how about the traditional way of preserving fish?
Yakama Rising is something you’ve got to read if you’re looking into grassroots activism. Wherever you go in the USA, you’ll see teens getting into trouble because they’re bored. Afterschool activities have always been a cure-all for social ills, and the social ills always start with the kids.