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- Title
INDIGENOGRAPHY FOR CULTURAL EDUCATORS: THE CASE OF THE IROQUOIANIST SCHOOL AND THE FOUR INDIAN KINGS.
- Authors
Doxtater, Thohahoken-Michael
- Abstract
Using an indigenographic methodology to decode the signs and symbols in Jan Verelst's paintings of the Four Indian Kings (1710) this paper describes a decolonizing methodology for Iroquois Indigenous knowledge. The intellectual tradition that began in the 1800s called the Iroquoianist School, interprets Iroquois culture using a distinct diction and imagery that influences the view of Indigenous culture. The Iroquoianist School interprets Iroquoian culture through Western cultural presuppositions that influences them to depict Iroquois culture within the framework of the Western master narrative of evolution. Believing the ancien regime of Iroquois culture to be a theocracy of ceremonial ritualists, Iroquoianists focus on necromancy and death rituals. In contrast to the sacral view, an examination of the Four Indian Kings demonstrates a broader secular governance model that depicts a conception of justice and social order.
- Subjects
CANADA; VERELST, Jan; IROQUOIS art; IROQUOIS (North American people); INDIGENOUS art; SYMBOLISM in art; ABORIGINAL Canadians; NATIVE American rites &; ceremonies; JUSTICE; SOCIAL order; SOCIAL life &; customs of Native Americans
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 2012, Vol 32, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0715-3244
- Publication type
Article