SURVIVANCE Survival with dignity HSP 406 Global Systems Aletia Bennett

Global Survival and Resistance We will explore … What survivance is How survivance is depicted The lens in which to view survivance through Economic and governance issues and the implications for human services

How indigenous people keep their culture alive and preserve their dignity

Global survival and resistance Multiple messages of survivance in a rhetorical style of communication Methods of passing down knowledge of survivance The importance of trickstery in communicating survivance

Courtesy google images Relating stories with many meanings and signifying many things (multivocality) ( Armin Mejia, J., 2011,p.103)

National Museum of the American Indian (NAMI) Featuring individual expressions of Native nations with a Native voice and a new way of experiencing a interactive museum (King, 2011) Multivocality with inclusion of all people (courtesy google images)

Survivance methods of transmitting heritage The NAMI museum provides multiple methods of experiencing Native American cultures in an interactive, insightful, and engaging way. In survivance storytelling there is a sense of “becoming”, a mutability and a imagery of the earth as a participant in the stories (Liang,2003, p. 130). (courtesy google images)

Tricksters as a means of communicating survivance Who are the tricksters? Trickster is at one and the same time creator and destroyer, giver and negator, he who dupes others and who is always duped himself. He wills nothing consciously. At all times he is constrained to behave as he does from impulses over which he has no control. He knows neither good nor evil yet he is responsible for both. He possesses no values, moral or social, is at the mercy of his passions and appetites, yet through his actions all values come into being. Common trickster characters: Coyote, spider, raven, hare and the clowns of the Pueblo people. Why are they important? Trickstery teaches lessons of self awareness and dignity transculturally that is passed down from generation to generation. Stories of trickstery have reasons for being shared; they are respectfully told and altered for the people they are told to creating a mutability in the meanings and what they signify. Transformational characters in trickstery use comedy to create a communal adhesive with multivocality.

Global survivance and the enduring traumas that are faced by indigenous people requires awareness of the issues so their voice is heard. (courtesy google images)

What Darfur Diaries taught me about survivance on a global scale An example of survivance and indigenous voice in the trauma of Darfur Darfur Diaries documentary clip (click preview to play) (courtesy google images)

The economic and governance impacts on the survival, resistance, and dignity of indigenous people (courtesy google images)

Indigenous cultures have experienced extreme poverty and trauma by governance systems The economic and governance issues of indigineous global survivance affects how, if and when human services delivers their services The human services are available but the barriers include both economic and governance issues (courtesy google images)

How the understanding of survivance will affect my future as a Human services professional I have discovered a new way in which to learn and explore my understanding of diverse cultures. The global stories of survivance and their impact on future generations has given me a larger and more open minded lens in which to view global trauma and healing. I will seek understanding and become more sensitive to the underlying strengths of indigenous communities and their cultural paradigms.

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