From a864877f94bae10f53504846350d4677afc59abd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tatiana Mac Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 20:29:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=E2=9E=95=20Adds=20powwow=20(#122)?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * [WIP] draft for powwow * 🐛 Fix build error --- 11ty/definitions/pow-wow.md | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 11ty/definitions/pow-wow.md diff --git a/11ty/definitions/pow-wow.md b/11ty/definitions/pow-wow.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d72a9594 --- /dev/null +++ b/11ty/definitions/pow-wow.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +title: pow-wow +slug: pow-wow +defined: true +speech: noun or verb +flag: + level: avoid + text: cultural appropriation +alt-words: +- brainstorm/brainstorming session +- gather/gathering +- get together +- meet/meeting +- whiteboard/whiteboarding session +- work/working session +reading: +- text: Use these culturally offensive phrases, questions at your own risk + href: https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/culturally-offensive-phrases-you-should-use-at +- text: "Vice: How to be an ally to Native Americans and Indigenous people" + href: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5a3m/how-to-be-an-ally-to-native-americans-indigenous-people +- text: "Mic: Things we need to stop saying about Native Americans" + href: https://www.mic.com/articles/144584/things-we-need-to-stop-saying-about-native-americans +- text: "Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples (4th Ed)" + href: https://www.chinookmarketplace.com/products/book-working-effectively-with-indigenous-peoples-4th-edition +--- +comes from the Narragansett word _powwaw_, meaning "spiritual leader; (also spelled powwow, powaw, pawaw, powah, pauwau and pawau); social gathering, ceremony, or celebrations held in different Native American communities that can be spiritually symbolic in nature, involve dancing and regalia, and involve months of planning with hundreds of people in attendance; colloquially is culturally appropriated and used to mean "to meet" (verb) or meeting, working session, or gathering (noun). + +## Issue +Non-Native/non-Indigenous people using pow-wow outside of the context of its Native American meaning and significance is culturally appropriation through terminology. + +Using culturally appropriative language while Native American and Indigenous people are systematically harmed reinforces settler colonial oppression. + +## Impact +Cultural appropriation is problematic because it robs the culture from the people without their consent, while the people behind the culture are left behind and systemically excluded from the spaces using their culture. + +Using Native and Indigenous culture outside of its intended meaning also demeans its value to the culture. Connoting that your five-person meeting about making an app is somehow the same as culturally significant event minimises what powwows are. \ No newline at end of file