What is Decolonization?
Honouring and Recognizing the people and Land you live on:
Find out the people and whose land you live on using this web-site and app:
www.native-land.ca
Giving proper land acknowledgement:
https://nativegov.org/a-guide-to-indigenous-land-acknowledgment/
www.native-land.ca
Giving proper land acknowledgement:
https://nativegov.org/a-guide-to-indigenous-land-acknowledgment/
What is cultural appropriation and Cultural Apriciation:
How can I support Indiginous Artists--is it ok to wear?
Read this guide on cultural Appropriation:
https://nativegov.org/cultural-appropriation-and-wellness-guide
https://nativegov.org/cultural-appropriation-and-wellness-guide
Books on the subject of Cultural Appropriation:
Who Owns Culture Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law By Susal Scafildi
It is not uncommon for white suburban youths to perform rap music, for New York fashion designers to ransack the world's closets for inspiration, or for Euro-American authors to adopt the voice of a geisha or shaman. But who really owns these art forms? Is it the community in which they were originally generated, or the culture that has absorbed them?
While claims of authenticity or quality may prompt some consumers to seek cultural products at their source, the communities of origin are generally unable to exclude copyists through legal action. Like other works of unincorporated group authorship, cultural products lack protection under our system of intellectual property law. But is this legal vacuum an injustice, the lifeblood of American culture, a historical oversight, a result of administrative incapacity, or all of the above?
Who Owns Culture? offers the first comprehensive analysis of cultural authorship and appropriation within American law. From indigenous art to Linux, Susan Scafidi takes the reader on a tour of the no-man's-land between law and culture, pausing to ask: What prompts us to offer legal protection to works of literature, but not folklore? What does it mean for a creation to belong to a community, especially a diffuse or fractured one? And is our national culture the product of Yankee ingenuity or cultural kleptomania?
Providing new insights to communal authorship, cultural appropriation, intellectual property law, and the formation of American culture, this innovative and accessible guide greatly enriches future legal understanding of cultural production.
The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation by James O Young
The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation.
Cultural Appropriation and the arts by James O Young
Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise.
Here is a great link to a resources of Indigenous owned bookstores across Canada and the USA:
https://blog.libro.fm/indigenous-owned-bookstoresblog.libro.fm/indigenous-owned-bookstores/
Also: Dont forget to pop over to our "Read" page to see more books by Indigenous authors.
It is not uncommon for white suburban youths to perform rap music, for New York fashion designers to ransack the world's closets for inspiration, or for Euro-American authors to adopt the voice of a geisha or shaman. But who really owns these art forms? Is it the community in which they were originally generated, or the culture that has absorbed them?
While claims of authenticity or quality may prompt some consumers to seek cultural products at their source, the communities of origin are generally unable to exclude copyists through legal action. Like other works of unincorporated group authorship, cultural products lack protection under our system of intellectual property law. But is this legal vacuum an injustice, the lifeblood of American culture, a historical oversight, a result of administrative incapacity, or all of the above?
Who Owns Culture? offers the first comprehensive analysis of cultural authorship and appropriation within American law. From indigenous art to Linux, Susan Scafidi takes the reader on a tour of the no-man's-land between law and culture, pausing to ask: What prompts us to offer legal protection to works of literature, but not folklore? What does it mean for a creation to belong to a community, especially a diffuse or fractured one? And is our national culture the product of Yankee ingenuity or cultural kleptomania?
Providing new insights to communal authorship, cultural appropriation, intellectual property law, and the formation of American culture, this innovative and accessible guide greatly enriches future legal understanding of cultural production.
The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation by James O Young
The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation.
- Explores cultural appropriation in a wide variety of contexts, among them the arts and archaeology, museums, and religion
- Questions whether cultural appropriation is always morally objectionable
- Includes research that is equally informed by empirical knowledge and general normative theory
- Provides a coherent and authoritative perspective gained by the collaboration of philosophers and specialists in the field who all participated in this unique research project
Cultural Appropriation and the arts by James O Young
Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise.
- Cultural appropriation is a pervasive feature of the contemporary world (the Parthenon Marbles remain in London; white musicians from Bix Beiderbeck to Eric Clapton have appropriated musical styles from African-American culture)
- Young offers the first systematic philosophical investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise
- Tackles head on the thorny issues arising from the clash and integration of cultures and their artifacts
- Questions considered include: “Can cultural appropriation result in the production of aesthetically successful works of art?” and “Is cultural appropriation in the arts morally objectionable?”
- Part of the highly regarded New Directions in Aesthetics series
Here is a great link to a resources of Indigenous owned bookstores across Canada and the USA:
https://blog.libro.fm/indigenous-owned-bookstoresblog.libro.fm/indigenous-owned-bookstores/
Also: Dont forget to pop over to our "Read" page to see more books by Indigenous authors.
Shop and support Indigenous Artists writers and businesses:
**If you use instagram a great hashtag to follow is #indigeniousbusiness**
Lesley Hampton- Fashion
Xalish Earth Medicines- Offering herbals workshops and herbal medicines
Yellowtail-Native owned and operated business offering fashion and jewelry.
Cheekbone Beauty-Makes amazing lipsticks and make up.
Delia Estelle-Jewelry
Jaime Okuma-Fashion
Decolonizing Daughters-Create and sell soaps and jewelry among other things.
Skwalwen Botanicals-Create beautiful herbal products such as facial tonics, serums and beauty products.
https://www.indianagfoods.org/producers
Lastly this is a curated list of small businesses owned by Indigenous, Black and People of Colour that is a fantastic resource made by Jenny Jay @justaskjenny:
https://thedoublejay.typeform.com/to/be0CUl13
Lesley Hampton- Fashion
Xalish Earth Medicines- Offering herbals workshops and herbal medicines
Yellowtail-Native owned and operated business offering fashion and jewelry.
Cheekbone Beauty-Makes amazing lipsticks and make up.
Delia Estelle-Jewelry
Jaime Okuma-Fashion
Decolonizing Daughters-Create and sell soaps and jewelry among other things.
Skwalwen Botanicals-Create beautiful herbal products such as facial tonics, serums and beauty products.
https://www.indianagfoods.org/producers
Lastly this is a curated list of small businesses owned by Indigenous, Black and People of Colour that is a fantastic resource made by Jenny Jay @justaskjenny:
https://thedoublejay.typeform.com/to/be0CUl13
Living and working on the unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
© Nikiah Seeds 2016 Vancouver B.C Canada
© Nikiah Seeds 2016 Vancouver B.C Canada