Fausto-Sterling: "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are Not Enough"

"Why Male and Female are Not Enough" , A. Sterling-Fausto

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Important Links! Get Informed!


Review of Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Colonialism and Kanehsatake: Are Disposession and Forced Integration Ongoing?

Kanehsatake: Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

Alanis Obomsawin: Biographical background

Hand-Outs Are In Wilson 10

Remember to pick up the Hand-Out (H.O.) readings for the weekend; They are available this afternoon and all day tomorrow:

"Gender in Inuit Society", Lee Guemple
"Mother as Clanswoman Rank and Gender in Tlingit Society", Laura F. Klein
(From: Women and Power in Native North America, University Oklahoma Press, 1995)

and,

"Gender", from Anne Seren's TransReference site. Hard copy in folder too.

and,

"Introduction", and "Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide," Andrea Smith
(From: Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, South End Press, 2005)

Guidelines for Leading "Discussion & Making Connections"

Here are some general guidelines to follow when you are preparing to lead a discussion on an assigned text.

1. Orientation.

This is a nice tool to hand your classmates. Give us a map, an image, a sense of what communities are being studied and where they are located. Give us a sense of perspective: indigenous perspectives, Native and Indigenous women's histories, biases of the state against local indigenous peoples, local struggles, current political issues, claims, debates...(this may require a little bit of internet research--take risks, go outside the lines.)

2. Give us a general understanding of a 'power mapping' or power relations in the reading. I.E., how do the indigenous women position themselves to different sites and discourses of power in relation to how colonial institutions and classes benefitted by their oppression.

3. Overview:

What are the main ideas covered in this selected text? How does(do) the author(s) orient the reader to themes, issues, main topics? Give a brief summary of what those are, to help organize the discussion. This will help you and the class have a foundation to build from during the next part...

4. Quotes & Questions:

Give 2-3 quotes to help give us a sense of issues, problems, concerns raised by the author(s) that we should pay attention to and talk about.

Give 2-3 questions that you want us to think about together and to discuss as a group.

GUIDELINES FOR RESPONDING TO READINGS:

* Highlight the author's main thesis, arguments, and criticisms.
* Praise the arguments, proofs, theories, tools, methods which the article brings to your learning process.
* Identify a few select quotations as springboards to launch your own discussion of the text.
* Question. Assert your own critical thinking by asking yourself: What does this text raise for you that you feel is worthy of examination by a larger community of writers, thinkers, researchers such as yourself and your in-class colleagues?
* POV (point of view): How are you synthesizing this information into your learners' toolkit? Is shifting occurring for you?