Tag: identity

• The Map Is Not the Territory

  We tend to confused maps and the territories they represent. Yet to do so threatens to undercut or erase lived experiences and personal, family, and cultural identity.

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 21, 2012

  native american, Shamanism, Social issues

  Cognitive Maps, Elizabeth Warren, identity, Narrative Therapy, Native American

• Notable Blogs: 10/4/2010

  This week’s Notable Blogs focuses on Indigenous people in the arts.We begin with a contest that requested songs to and about the salmon. Salmon, that delicious trickster  who travels the world, always to come home again to mate, spawn, and die, and be reborn: After over 4 days of listening to the 38 entries, scrutinizing…

  Michael Watson PhD

  October 4, 2010

  Arts, Notable Blogs

  genocide, identity, Indigenous, survival, trauma

• On not being, and being, Native American.

  My father died a few years ago.  A day or two before he died, My sister asked him whether we are Native American. My father sat up in bed, smiled, and said with great pride that, yes, we were, and on both sides. Stunned to have our question answered, we did not ask about tribal…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 18, 2010

  Other Subjects

  identity, Native American, survival