ethnoautobiography (...trans/formation ongoing...)

Table of contents

List of Riffs

List of Activities

List of Figures and Tables

List of Illustrations

Special Thanks

Ethnoautobiography: A Map to Decolonization and Indigenization

by Leny Mendoza Strobel

The Ceremonial Stepping–Stones of Ethnoautobiography

by Apela Colorado

Truth Makes Us, But First We Have to Free Truth

by Stanley Krippner

Preface by Jürgen Werner Kremer & R Jackson–Paton

Chapter 0 Let’s Have a Conversation

Chapter 1 Who Am I?

Chapter 2 The Self – Now Larger, Now Smaller

Chapter 3 Why Not Simply ‘Autobiography’?

Chapter 4 Ethnoautobiography Defined

Chapter 5 We Are Moral Beings

Chapter 6 Community and Communitas

Chapter 7 Where Am I? Ethnoautobiography as Gateway to Place

Chapter 8 Connecting Nature, Self and History

Chapter 9 History – Memory and Imagination

Chapter 10 Mythic Stories

Chapter 11 Who Are My Ancestors?

Chapter 12 En/gendering Embodied Ethnoautobiography

Chapter 13 Gathering Ourselves Through Dreams

Chapter 14 Faith, Spirituality, Skepticism

Chapter 15 To Tell a Story…

Chapter 16 Healing Ourselves – Healing Others

Chapter 17 Continuing the Conversation

Appendix: Ethnoautobiography as Research Methodology

Glossary

References

Index

List of riffs

Chapter 0 So You Really Want to Know Who I Am?

Boundaries

Chapter 1 No Longer a Teen

Chapter 2 Circles

Chapter 3 I Am a White Man

Chapter 4 The Old Ones Would Say

Feeling Lucky

Chapter 5 Nazis in the Closet

From the Desert Into the City

Chapter 6 Looking for Cynthia Ann Parker

The Soul and People of the Arabic Desert

Chapter 7 Coaquannok — The Place of the Long Trees

Millennial Twins

Chapter 8 Timbisha Transformations

Chapter 9 To Sand Creek

Chapter 10 Mythic Tricksters at Play

Chapter 11 Ancestral Imaginings

Chapter 12 Of Boy Scouts, Sexual Abuse, and Settler Identity

The Lessons of Staff Sargent Harley

Chapter 13 Movement Passing Through

Chapter 14 Balancing Rigor and Openness

Indigenous … Science

Chapter 15 Homecoming

Chapter 16 The Unbearable Rightness of Being

Chapter 17 Bardic Resolutions

Appendix Finding our Way

List of activities

Chapter 0 Let’s Have a Conversation

Reflecting on an Issue

Chapter 1 Who Am I?

Self Introduction

Chapter 2 The Self — Now Larger, Now Smaller

  1. Overview of a Contemporary Indigenous People
  2. Mapping Your Self

Chapter 3 Why Not Simply ‘Autobiography’?

  1. Create an Ancestral Altar or Collage
  2. Visualizing Settlement

Chapter 4 Ethnoautobiography Defined

  1. Accepting Origins
  2. Elements of Your Ethnoautobiography

Chapter 5 We Are Moral Beings

  1. Transformative Learning Experience
  2. Moral Dilemma

Chapter 6 Community and Communitas

Community Mapping

Chapter 7 Where am I? Ethnoautobiography as Gateway to Place

A Place in Time

Chapter 8 Connecting Nature, Self and History.

  1. Ecological Research
  2. Local Nature

Chapter 9 History — Memory and Imagination

Making Pilgrimages

Chapter 10 Mythic Stories

Recreating a Creation Myth

Chapter 11 Who are My Ancestors?

  1. Family Pictures
  2. Mapping Ancestry

Chapter 12 En/gendering Embodied Ethnoautobiography

  1. Gender Collage
  2. Embodying Personal Identity

Chapter 13 Gathering Ourselves Through Dreams

Working with a Dream

Chapter 14 Faith, Spirituality, Skepticism

The Meaning of Life

Chapter 15 To Tell a Story …

Acting out Your Story

Chapter 16 Healing Ourselves — Healing Others

Council of all Ancestors