indigenous revival
Aboriginal cultural renewal
Indigenous revival describes movements to restore, reclaim, or strengthen native cultures, languages, traditions, and governance systems after periods of suppression or decline.
The term encompasses efforts ranging from language immersion programs to land reclamation to ceremonial renewal: The indigenous revival in New Zealand has brought Māori language into mainstream education.
Such movements often combine cultural preservation with political assertion of sovereignty and rights.
- ancestralOf one's forebears
- reclamationRecovery of something lost
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- eldersSenior community members
- landEarth's solid surface
sacred sites · tradition · language · sovereignty · decolonization · water protectors · resurgence · roots · heritage · sacred · tribal · tribal council · reawakening · native · ritual · medicine wheel · cultural · cultural pride
indigenous revivalassimilation
Absorbing into a whole
cultural assimilation · forced assimilation · acculturation · westernization · mainstreaming
indigenous revivalcultural genocide
Destroying identity without killing
ethnocide · colonization · settler colonialism · cultural imperialism · forced conversion
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