Problem
Read Polly O. Walker's SINGING A NEW SONG: THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN INDIGENOUS STRATEGIES OF NONVIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE and help me answer the question below? Focus on the Ghost Dance please
Did the authors of your sources conduct interviews with Indigenous or non-Indigenous people? Make sound recordings of music? How about transcriptions? Do they provide detailed descriptions of events (ethnographic description)? Analyze recordings or documents found in archives? Relay the authors' research methods and materials in about one paragraph per source.
Considering each source, describe how Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous perspectives are integrated and represented by the authors in the text. Is most of the source devoted to conveying Indigenous knowledge and/or Indigenous perspectives? Or are Indigenous knowledge and/or perspectives of secondary importance? How can you tell? Relationality: Is it clear how the Indigenous knowledge and/or perspectives came to the author? Does the author communicate their personal relationship to the knowledge and to the knowers (the people who have shared the knowledge about Indigenous music or culture with them)?
Positionality: Do the authors identify themselves as settler and/or Indigenous? Do they identify their positionality at all?