Finding Dawn Film Analysis

This is my personal journey towards dismantling my conceptualized understanding of being a privileged knower into accepting that I am a complete foreigner. Throughout this learning journey, I have uncovered weeds that would impact my anti-oppressive journey path. I will integrate the “Just Practice Framework” principals of “meaning, context, power, history, and possibility” that will guide me along this self exploration journey (Finn & Jacobson, 2003, n.p.). Deconstructing my social location
McIntosh (1989) describes the oblivious nature of “white” privileges and how these privileges implement dominant discourse (1989, n.p.). This week, I examined the “context” surrounding my “white privileges” by asking myself how does my class, gender
I recognized the impact of “Segregationist Racism” where numbers create a falsified sense of distance while encouraging creating racial space to exist (Zambudio & Rios, 2006, p. 493). The Finding Dawn teaching guide encourages viewers to reflect on “what is a number?” (Blaney, 2009, p. 2). I realize that numbers create a categorical assumption of quantity over quality, thus creating and artificial
This concept was shared by Maracle (2004) when describing lifting and examining the contents underneath the rocks of the “shared common garden” (2004, p. 208). The Building Bridges Through Understanding the Village “workshop I attended further built upon this concept. I realized the fallacy associated to the term “mutual understanding”. One elder shared, that the colonizer took away the “we” and formed a “me” based society and this is where the fallacy of “mutual understanding” started. The “Just Practice Framework” describes the importance of associating meaning in relation to the client (Finn J. & Jacobson, M. 2003). I realized that power trumps “mutual understanding” when I attended a treaty negotiation meeting in Campbell River. Maracle (2004) describes treaty negotiations brings with it, a sort of lost pain associated to ancestry and lost traditions (p.