Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies & Pragmatics 2007 Burke Museum at the University

Burke Museum at the University of Washington

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The Way It Is presents a coming of age novel about a fifteen-year-old girl who finds moving from Vancouver to Salmon Arm daunting when her parents lease a summer resort located on First Nation territory

LUISE VON FLOTOW is a translator of French and German literature

By juxtaposing historical events and quotes with the poetic narrative

Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies & Pragmatics 2007 Burke Museum at the UniversityIn this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a sophisticated theory of change that accounts for the complexity of Indigenous peoples engagement with Christianity and other cosmologies, their own colonial experiences, as well as their ongoing relationships to place and kin. The contributors offer fine grained ethnographic studies that