cultural empowerment is not central to King’s agenda, explain why.
Cultural empowerment refers to the way of life, that talks about food,language, clothes, and spirtual ideas. Empowering others by teaching and telling them the stories and traditions of your family, it also refers to the freedom of being to practice your own culture, while also respecting other cultures. This broad definition/understanding of cultural empowerment leads me to believe that empowerment is central to Kings essays. After listening to Thomas King talk and tell stories for that long, it is hard not to recognize the fact that he is indeed providing a model or definition of cultural empowerment. I will discuss three ways/elements that i believe adds to the empowerment of Native peoples. I could only imagine …show more content…
It is empowering to watch someone speak that is from the same place as you, or has the same values or experiences, that alone would make any person feel empowered. Furthermore, in Kings lecture titled “you’re not the Indian i had in mind” in memorial university in St.John, he uses clothes and spirtual ideas to connect with the audience, he gives us an idea of how the western world views native Indians, as primitive, feather weathering people. When he tells us the story of the guy who took pictures of natives was surprised to see that they did not all look the same it empowers people to try and not to fit into the stearotypical image, and he is infact saying that not every native looks the same. And finally, his lecture in university of Victoria titled “let me entertain you” is also another facet that adds to the empowerment of native peoples. He starts the lecture with the story of the turtle that has the world on its back. This is an imnportant part in the cultural empowerment model, as being able to teach and tell these stories provides a bridge that connects the viewers with the culture. King mentions in part one of
Cultural empowerment refers to the way of life, that talks about food,language, clothes, and spirtual ideas. Empowering others by teaching and telling them the stories and traditions of your family, it also refers to the freedom of being to practice your own culture, while also respecting other cultures. This broad definition/understanding of cultural empowerment leads me to believe that empowerment is central to Kings essays. After listening to Thomas King talk and tell stories for that long, it is hard not to recognize the fact that he is indeed providing a model or definition of cultural empowerment. I will discuss three ways/elements that i believe adds to the empowerment of Native peoples. I could only imagine …show more content…
It is empowering to watch someone speak that is from the same place as you, or has the same values or experiences, that alone would make any person feel empowered. Furthermore, in Kings lecture titled “you’re not the Indian i had in mind” in memorial university in St.John, he uses clothes and spirtual ideas to connect with the audience, he gives us an idea of how the western world views native Indians, as primitive, feather weathering people. When he tells us the story of the guy who took pictures of natives was surprised to see that they did not all look the same it empowers people to try and not to fit into the stearotypical image, and he is infact saying that not every native looks the same. And finally, his lecture in university of Victoria titled “let me entertain you” is also another facet that adds to the empowerment of native peoples. He starts the lecture with the story of the turtle that has the world on its back. This is an imnportant part in the cultural empowerment model, as being able to teach and tell these stories provides a bridge that connects the viewers with the culture. King mentions in part one of