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ReStorying Matricultures
ReMembering Indigenous Matricultures in Canada (Excerpt 3) Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna) (1986) has long asserted the prevalence of matricultures as an “advanced social system” on Turtle Island (p. xiii). In my research into Indigenous matricultures in Canada, I privilege the … Continue reading
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ReStorying Matricultures
ReMembering Matricultures in North Africa Tanit, Ancestral Mother of North Africa, is a powerful, parthenogenetic force known as Mother of all the Gods. The name Ta-Nit was translated as ‘Land of Neith’ (Bernal, 1987, p. 51) and in pre-dynastic Egypt, … Continue reading
ReStorying Matricultures
Wolfstone, I. F. (2024). ReStorying matricultures. Book chapter in E. Abdou & T. Zervas (Eds.), Ancient and Indigenous wisdom traditions in the Americas: Towards more balanced and inclusive curricular representations and classroom practices. Studies in Curriculum Theory Series edited by … Continue reading
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Social Tipping Points
Global Tipping Points is a climate research project led by Professor Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute. The Global Tipping Points Report was launched during COP28. This report expands our understanding about the interdependence of social systems … Continue reading
Doctor of Philosophy
Yesterday I completed my six-year learning journey with University of Alberta and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. I am proud to provide a link to my dissertation titled “Indigenous Conditions for Cultural Continuity: Designing Local Climate Change Adaptations … Continue reading
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Poem to Sedna
As sojourners, we are like shamans diving into an icy underworld to make right our relationship with the Mother. We plead with Her on behalf of our people, but she is angry that her people break taboos by taking more … Continue reading
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Poem to Persephone
As sojourners, we languish in the underworld of a eurogenic Dark Age waiting for the arrival of new Life – a new beginning. Waiting, we walk the winter garden where last-year’s leaves quietly compost beneath blankets of snow renewing soil … Continue reading
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Poem to Mother Earth
As Sojourners on the spiral of time We wait for the Mother to gestate seeds planted before the cold of this long winter this chaotic Dark Age that seems to have no end. We are natals waiting for the world … Continue reading
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Self-isolating during the COVID-19 Pandemic
I am not finding it easy to be self-isolation. When I returned from New Mexico on March 16th, the self-isolation was a requirement upon returning from travel to US. Now it is not forced, but the public health order requires … Continue reading
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Regeneration
It is April 5, 2020 and my website has been dormant for over 2 years while I completed course requirements for my doctoral program at University of Alberta. Now as we shift paradigms due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I return … Continue reading
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