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- Title
The Turtle Lodge: sustainable self-determination in practice.
- Authors
Cameron, Laura; Courchene, Dave; Ijaz, Sabina; Mauro, Ian
- Abstract
The Turtle Lodge International Centre for Indigenous Education and Wellness in Sagkeeng First Nation, Manitoba, is leading the way in exemplifying and cultivating sustainable self-determination. This is a holistic concept and process that recognizes the central role that land and culture play in self-determination, and the responsibility to pass these teachings on to future generations. This article links theory and practice in the emerging scholarship on sustainable self-determination and examines how Turtle Lodge embodies sustainable self-determination through traditional governance and laws, respectful and reciprocal relationships, cultivation of cultural revitalization and community well-being, and efforts to inspire earth guardianship. Turtle Lodge's experience underscores the importance of understanding sustainable self-determination as a flexible, community-based process. This case study fits within recent calls in the literature for a shift from a rights-based to responsibility-based self-determination discourse and demonstrates some of the challenges and lessons learned that might support other communities pursuing similar actions.
- Subjects
EDUCATION of indigenous peoples; SUSTAINABLE development; AUTONOMY (Psychology); SOCIAL responsibility; GUARDIAN &; ward
- Publication
AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2019, Vol 15, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
1177-1801
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1177180119828075