indigenizing
Adapting to locale
Indigenizing is the process of adapting something to fit indigenous cultures, perspectives, or practices.
In education, indigenizing a curriculum means incorporating indigenous knowledge systems, histories, and ways of learning: The university is indigenizing its history program by centering Native voices.
The term appears frequently in discussions of decolonization, where institutions work to undo the erasure of indigenous peoples and their contributions.
Ending imperial control
- reclamationRecovery of something lost
- revitalizationRestoring vigor or vitality
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
repatriation · resurgence · resistance · empowerment · liberation · autonomy · land back · decolonial
Long-established customs passed down
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ceremoniesFormal observances with ritual
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- spiritualityConnection to the sacred
oral history · elders · ancestors · sacred practices · storytelling · kinship · clan · tribal
Adapting for specific markets
- contextualizationPlacing something within circumstances
- place-basedAnchored to particular location
- community-basedCentered on local groups
- groundingConnecting to earth
rooting · tailoring · customizing · embedding · integrating · incorporating · domestication · acclimatization
Concerning connections between things
- holisticAddressing interconnected wholes
- oral traditionsCulture transmitted through speech
- experientialDerived from direct involvement
- ethnobotanyScience of human-plant relationships
decolonization
Ending imperial control
- reclamationRecovery of something lost
- revitalizationRestoring vigor or vitality
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
sovereignty · repatriation · resurgence · resistance · empowerment · liberation · autonomy · land back · decolonial · anti-colonial
traditions
Long-established customs passed down
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ceremoniesFormal observances with ritual
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
spirituality · oral history · elders · ancestors · sacred practices · storytelling · kinship · clan · tribal · cosmology
localization
Adapting for specific markets
- contextualizationPlacing something within circumstances
- place-basedAnchored to particular location
- community-basedCentered on local groups
grounding · rooting · tailoring · customizing · embedding · integrating · incorporating · domestication · acclimatization · reframing
relational
Concerning connections between things
- holisticAddressing interconnected wholes
- oral traditionsCulture transmitted through speech
- experientialDerived from direct involvement
indigenizingwesternizing
Adopting Western cultural practices
colonizing · globalizing · homogenizing · standardizing · Americanizing
indigenizingtransplanting
Moving living growth elsewhere
copying · replicating · preserving · maintaining · duplicating
indigenizingcolonizing
Occupying and controlling territory
imperializing · imposing · dominating · supplanting · displacing
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