Nationhood Interrupted

Download or read book Nationhood Interrupted written by Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum) and published by Purich Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, nêhiyaw (Cree) laws are shared and passed down through oral customs — stories, songs, ceremonies — using lands, waters, animals, land markings and other sacred rites. However, the loss of the languages, customs, and traditions of Indigenous peoples as a direct result of colonization has necessitated this departure from the oral tradition to record the physical laws of the nêhiyaw. McAdam, a co-founder of the international movement Idle No More, shares nêhiyaw laws so that future generations, both nêhiyaw and non-Indigenous people, may understand and live by them to revitalize Indigenous nationhood.