SWAG 211 Concept Map

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  1. Hey, it's eli and this is my final project, my concept map
  2. For Swag to 11 intro to indigenous gender.
  3. So
  4. before starting the class, I had this sort of basic idea that
  5. obviously
  6. every aspect of indigenous culture had been impacted by colonization.
  7. However,
  8. um
  9. I didn't really realize that there was much
  10. different between indigenous gender and colonized gender.
  11. Um, and this class has really shown me that colonization
  12. has not only altered traditional ideas of gender
  13. but has
  14. almost completely destroyed them.
  15. So the layers of this concept map here just kind of show
  16. how am I understanding deepened throughout the course. So this first frame here,
  17. you see the basic idea colonization destroys traditional gender
  18. and then we move in to actually understanding what traditional gender means.
  19. So most indigenous societies
  20. acknowledged three genders
  21. which were women, men and a third gender
  22. that we might refer to as gender queer
  23. or gender nonconforming by our binary standards.
  24. First, we'll look at women what it means to be indigenous and feminine.
  25. It means to be a strong dependable and assertive leader. We see this
  26. through
  27. sources such as the we are real scoop
  28. or we were real scoop from women
  29. chapter as well as the coast Salish knitters
  30. film,
  31. both of which show how women will go out of their way
  32. to provide and fight for their families and their livelihoods
  33. and be very active members of their communities
  34. in our class on indigenous femininity. We also discussed
  35. the strength of mothers and the strength it takes to be a mother
  36. and
  37. simply
  38. how
  39. incredible and important that role is within a community and how indigenous women
  40. embody that strength in every aspect of their lives.
  41. We also mentioned the leadership roles held by women in some cultures,
  42. such as clan mothers.
  43. Now moving on to indigenous masculinity.
  44. I learned a lot from both the speaker we had in
  45. and
  46. the article we read in preparation for the class,
  47. the CBC radio article
  48. and
  49. I think both
  50. really showed the devastating impacts of colonization on
  51. indigenous men specifically.
  52. I know we tend to think about
  53. the effects on women such as missing and murdered indigenous women,
  54. but we don't
  55. really think about how
  56. disastrous this has been for men specifically.
  57. So indigenous masculinity traditionally from what I gathered
  58. is about being an involved community member and a positive role model.
  59. It's also clear to me that indigenous masculinity has strong ties to respect
  60. from the class on the topic. My main takeaway was that
  61. to be
  62. an indigenous man, is to respect elders, is to respect women
  63. and is to be a good example of a community member for the next generation to look up to
  64. and to aspire to be like
  65. now moving on again to
  66. third gender,
  67. which varies greatly from culture to culture
  68. in India there, the hydra in
  69. Indonesia there, the lesbian, the tomboy
  70. In North America there, the two Spirit and in Mexico they are the Mushi.
  71. Um
  72. the cool thing about two spirit also that I learned is that it is an umbrella term
  73. because
  74. it
  75. encapsulates
  76. identities from many cultures.
  77. Many different nations have their own,
  78. Their own language to describe and their own roles they assign
  79. to two separate individuals.
  80. And I thought that was very interesting.
  81. Um
  82. I
  83. the common ties between all of these third genders
  84. are that they identify as neither man nor woman exclusively,
  85. but tend to be
  86. Some mixture of the two or something
  87. separate altogether.
  88. Um
  89. and they also tend to have
  90. spiritual importance in their cultures.
  91. The hydra, for example, are believed to have
  92. the power to bless and curse people.
  93. The exception to that is the mouche as we learned in
  94. uh the presentation given by making key in class,
  95. which was very interesting, but it's not even that they
  96. didn't have a spiritual role,
  97. it's that they might have and that knowledge has been lost due to colonization.
  98. So just to clarify,
  99. I do want to point out that indigenous cultures are not monolithic,
  100. so this
  101. may not apply to all cultures,
  102. but this is the general understanding I got from the class
  103. moving on to colonization.
  104. So
  105. colonization imposed
  106. very different ideas of gender onto indigenous people and it did this
  107. in a variety of violent ways.
  108. It used
  109. the residential and day schools of the not so distant past and
  110. is currently using
  111. legislation that involves systemic racism and over policing
  112. as well as the millennial scoop enforced sterilization to continue
  113. this,
  114. These colonizing efforts.
  115. So
  116. the ideas of white gender
  117. that have been imposed, our binary patriarchal and misogynistic
  118. colonization has imposed a system of two genders
  119. where gender and sex are the same thing.
  120. It also views men as superior to woman based on
  121. the very concrete
  122. gender roles that have been assigned
  123. because of these roles. It is also a very heteronormative culture,
  124. making it dangerous not just
  125. for gender queer individuals, but also for sexual minorities.
  126. So, white ideas of masculinity
  127. or
  128. strength are stoic are
  129. having a male body
  130. and being attracted to women.
  131. It is very
  132. cut and paste.
  133. It is very
  134. immobile, very solid, not fluid
  135. in any regard.
  136. And similarly for women, you are female,
  137. you are nurturing and you are attracted to men.
  138. And that is what it means to be
  139. a woman By
  140. the colonized definition.
  141. So
  142. big picture is
  143. that
  144. the
  145. colonizing practices used
  146. in the past and
  147. currently
  148. have and continue to destroy traditional gender roles.
  149. Not only that because it is such a violently rigid system of gender,
  150. it creates an unsafe space
  151. for any gender and sexual minorities.
  152. It has also made indigenous women less safe because
  153. they are seen as
  154. threatening.
  155. Yeah,
  156. they are often viewed as too masculine
  157. and indigenous men are often viewed as too feminine.
  158. It's the horrible paradox we find ourselves in.
  159. But
  160. all in all, it's
  161. essentially
  162. colonization has destroyed traditional gender
  163. and makes
  164. turtle island unsafe for
  165. everyone.
  166. Thanks