{"id":59384,"date":"2015-12-05T21:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T21:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/?p=59384"},"modified":"2015-12-05T21:21:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T21:21:52","slug":"getting-comfortable-with-gaelics-indigenous-side-a-few-things-to-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=59384","title":{"rendered":"Getting comfortable with Gaelic&#8217;s indigenous side &#8211; a few things to consider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Failte-gu-Alba-Welcome-to-Scotland-panel-2012-Scotiana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-57795\" alt=\"NYFG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Failte-gu-Alba-Welcome-to-Scotland-panel-2012-Scotiana-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Some of the advantages that\u00a0accompany engagement\u00a0with one&#8217;s Gaelic heritage are the\u00a0wonderful and useful bits of relevance\u00a0that a Gaelic past brings to modern life. That&#8217;s right. Lessons learned from a Gaelic perspective can be productively relevant to difficult problems we face\u00a0today. Consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gaelic tradition\u00a0introduces community oriented and inclusive\u00a0perspective in an increasingly exclusive and\u00a0inward looking modern world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Study of Gaelic culture encourages appreciation of diversity and an open, curious\u00a0nature in a world with growing numbers of closed minds and an\u00a0intolerant outlook.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gaelic tradition\u00a0recognizes and celebrates the fact\u00a0that humans are an integral part of the &#8220;natural&#8221; world and because\u00a0we depend upon it for a vast array of values, we should pay very close attention to its health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is little question that Scottish Gaelic identity remains distinct from other cultures existing within the UK and Scotland. Certainly it bears a distinct history and tradition. To some observers, Gaelic distinctiveness\u00a0shows most clearly through\u00a0Gaelic society&#8217;s indigenous characteristics and experience\u00a0and its historical\u00a0existence within a larger not-very-indigenous dominant culture.<\/p>\n<p>From the perspective of some in the\u00a0Gaelic Diaspora,\u00a0these indigenous characteristics of Gaelic tradition are of great interest. They allow us to begin to place our Gaelic heritage more closely and honestly within the histories of our own nations. Approaching Gaelic history and culture from an indigenous perspective opens windows and\u00a0invites wonderful discussion.<\/p>\n<p>But before diving too deeply into discussion of particular aspects of indigenousness, it is worth taking a moment to understand what it is, exactly, that links indigenous peoples&#8217; experiences across the world, today and in their respective histories.\u00a0What is an indigenous culture? It does not necessarily mean the first or only\u00a0humans to set foot on certain soil.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/esa\/socdev\/unpfii\/documents\/DRIPS_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples<\/a> includes this description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peoples &#8230; are regarded as indigenous on account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the country, or a geographical region to which the country belongs, at the time of conquest or colonization, who retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Further guidance from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unric.org\/en\/indigenous-people\/27309-individual-vs-collective-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Considering the diversity of indigenous peoples, an official definition of &#8220;indigenous&#8221; has not been adopted by any UN-system body. Instead the system has developed a modern understanding of this term based on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Self-identification as indigenous peoples at the individual level and accepted by the community as their member.<\/li>\n<li>Historical continuity with pre-colonial and\/or pre-settler societies<\/li>\n<li>Strong link to territories and surrounding natural resources<\/li>\n<li>Distinct social, economic or political systems<\/li>\n<li>Distinct language, culture and beliefs<\/li>\n<li>Form non-dominant groups of society<\/li>\n<li>Resolve to maintain and reproduce their ancestral environments and systems as distinctive peoples and communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">You can read more about what the United Nations has to say about indigenous people and characteristics\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unric.org\/en\/indigenous-people\/27309-individual-vs-collective-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Few Things To Consider<\/strong>.\u00a0Regarding consideration of Scottish Gaelic as an indigenous culture, here are five things &#8211; from a Diaspora perspective &#8211;\u00a0that might be worth keeping\u00a0in mind:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Gaelic Culture\u00a0Is\u00a0Not Just About Language and DNA<\/strong>. Although language and DNA can be seen as the entire shelf rather than just useful bookends, Gaelic identity is about so much more than language and DNA. In the void existing between those two things one finds all the rest of culture, socio-political institutions\u00a0and spiritual outlook and learning, and basic\u00a0life ways. Much of that has already been swept away in prior Scottish de-Gaelicicization efforts. What remains is threatened. Ultimately, however, these kinds of\u00a0cultural markers\u00a0are the things that remain of interest and about which we are still learning and trying to reclaim. Language is an incredibly important and enlightening element of culture but not the only one. It is important in its own right and for what it tells us about its mother culture. Language is also the key that opens the treasure chest of Gaelic historical perspective. If you cannot understand what Gaels have said in their own language &#8211; through your own study or by accessing some other reliable\u00a0study &#8211; you cannot understand all of what you need to understand. Nevertheless, although language is the key tool, the ultimate prize is deeper cultural understanding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Indigenous Does Not Mean Isolated.<\/strong> Indigenous cultures are not necessarily genetically pure or isolated from the outside world and from the\u00a0additive cultural\u00a0influence that warfare, trade and social interaction bring. Gaelic culture has enjoyed immigrant and trade influence as has almost every human culture and\u00a0society including many indigenous ones. Pictish and Norse and Welsh and Irish influences make Gaelic a very rich and diverse culture today &#8211; but the admixture is still called Gaelic and diverse cultural influences\u00a0do not necessarily\u00a0argue against indigeneity nor do they make recognition of Gaelic less important.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. &#8220;There can be only one.&#8221; NOT<\/strong>. Indigenousness is not a geopolitically exclusive status. Recognition of one culture as an\u00a0indigenous culture\u00a0does not mean that it has claimed exclusive right to that status throughout, in this case, Scotland and the UK. The many coexistent\u00a0indigenous cultures in the US provide good examples, as does the history of North Britain itself\u00a0to a certain extent. Fear of wiping out recognition of, or interest in the people that pre-dated and co-existed with\u00a0the Gaels is unsupported. There is nothing about the idea of a recognized\u00a0indigenous Gaelic culture that should lead to such an outcome. That, however, leads to the next really important thing to remember about indigenousness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> <strong>It&#8217;s Alive!!!!<\/strong> Indigenousness is, primarily,\u00a0an element of a living global cultural structure that is actively and physically present today. Discussion of indigeneity is firmly hooked to living people and their contemporary\u00a0lives. As demonstrated by the UN resources quoted above, whether there exists a logical basis for a culture to\u00a0self-determine its own indigenous status\u00a0is typically measured by historic continuity and status of living people. Reasonable claims to real rights are involved and so the determination is an important one not made lightly.<\/p>\n<p>It is certainly wonderful news that some cultures that had gone missing from contemporary Earth\u00a0have been successfully\u00a0revitalized in recent years\u00a0and even reclaimed from &#8220;sleeping beauty&#8221; status.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hiphilangsci.net\/2013\/06\/26\/historical-and-moral-arguments-for-language-reclamation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out this great article on language (cultural) revival\u00a0and\u00a0video about the experience of the\u00a0Barngarla people in Australia<\/a>. These movements are difficult and sincere and they often demonstrate best how much is lost when a culture and society are thoroughly and intentionally suppressed as well as what amazing things can be achieved by people today who work to bring them back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. &#8220;I&#8217;m Gaelic, We Suck&#8221; Said Nobody Ever<\/strong>. Erosion and Anglicization of Gaelic culture and society did not happen without the need for\u00a0consistent episodes of\u00a0severe repression applied by various non-Gaelic kings over the course of several centuries\u00a0to force ethnically stubborn\u00a0Gaels to accept Anglo\/Scottish incentives &#8211; or to\u00a0leave Scotland.\u00a0Near loss of Scottish Gaelic culture has not been an accident of history. In the largest of all nutshells, Gaelic culture and society have been specifically targeted for eradication and if not that, then severe containment.\u00a0Gaelic society\u00a0has been\u00a0historically perceived by most\u00a0Anglo, (non-Gaelic or anti-Gaelic) Scottish, and many American\u00a0observers as barbaric, savage, uncivilized, backward, etc. Thus,\u00a0under the general guise of &#8220;civilizing&#8221; the uncivilized, national policies have openly attempted to rid Scotland and America\u00a0of significant and meaningful Gaelic influence.\u00a0Culture-killing policies\u00a0and projects\u00a0have been clothed as beneficent reform and improvement. Such\u00a0has been the imperial pattern across the globe. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DZPjdNaLCho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Did you watch that video linked\u00a0above?\u00a0You should<\/a>.\u00a0Gaelic culture, like many others,\u00a0survives today because\u00a0it has proven extremely stubborn in the face of centuries of repression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the event.\u00a0 <\/strong>Clearly, the Scottish Gaelic indigenous experience was\u00a0broadly similar to\u00a0other indigenous experience, but also\u00a0different\u00a0in a few stand-out ways.\u00a0Scottish Gaels were some of the very\u00a0earliest victims of the invasive Anglo influence flowing up from the south. Gaels are also closer geographically to England than indigenous people on other continents. Perhaps more interestingly than all of this, however, is the fact that Gaels look like the Europeans that they are and\u00a0that makes the Gaelic indigenous experience its own. Gaels aren&#8217;t the only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unric.org\/en\/indigenous-people\/27307-the-sami-of-northern-europe--one-people-four-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">white indigenous people on the planet, but there aren&#8217;t all that many left. <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Light skin and\u00a0European\u00a0features did not automatically provide keys to Anglo respect for Scottish Gaels. Nevertheless, those European physical traits did place Scottish and Irish Gaels in a peculiar posture as far as Anglo imperial victims generally go. Anglicized Gaels could be more readily and somewhat more\u00a0deeply\u00a0accepted by Anglos than were\u00a0Anglicized\u00a0dark skinned aboriginal peoples.\u00a0Yet\u00a0there is no evidence that suggests\u00a0that giving up an ancient culture and way of life, pulling up roots and leaving a homeland under varying levels of duress was\u00a0always easier or created less loss\u00a0for Gaels than for other victims of similar cultural pressure elsewhere in the British empire.<\/p>\n<p>There are many great reasons why it makes sense\u00a0to examine Gaelic culture with an indigenous lens. In the end, it may be impossible for some people\u00a0to attach the label &#8220;indigenous&#8221; to Scotland&#8217;s last remaining distinctly pre-Anglo culture. If so, at the least take a moment to appreciate the great variety of experiences and cultural characteristics that Scottish Gaelic culture shares with those people across the globe\u00a0who have chosen to join the indigenous family.<\/p>\n<p>One important indigenous marker has to do with\u00a0the question of how humanity\u00a0understands itself relative to the non-human world and how humans interact with that world. Questions such as whether we will\u00a0continue to fuel extreme climate instability and how we adapt to climate changes that we fail to avoid are perfect opportunities to consider and\u00a0integrate indigenous ideas. There are a growing number of people on the planet who recognize great personal and global value and potential in indigenous ideas and approaches to the world and are therefore keen to understand them more completely. Scottish Gaelic offers opportunity in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of land, heritage and indigenous souls, a far better McIntosh than I, Alastair McIntosh, along with a handful of other scholars in Scotland and North America, have been forging new ideas on the topic of Gaelic relationships with landscape. Especially through interdisciplinary insight and understanding offered by Alastair McIntosh&#8217;s climate and human ecology perspective, exploration of traditional Gaelic relationships to land and other &#8220;indigenous&#8221; Gaelic qualities has already contributed not just to the interests of Gaelic heritage but to humanity&#8217;s better\u00a0understanding of itself and the planet.<\/p>\n<p>More on this topic coming. In the meanwhile, some really great reading:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Soil-Soul-People-versus-Corporate\/dp\/1854109421\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1448822532&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=soil+and+soul+alastair+mcintosh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power <\/a>by Alastair McIntosh (2004)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1841588261\/?tag=mh0b-20&amp;hvadid=4963249953&amp;hvqmt=p&amp;hvbmt=bp&amp;hvdev=c&amp;ref=pd_sl_6ruiqdxz5f_p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warriors Of The Word: The World Of Scottish Highlanders <\/a>by Michael Newton (2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Seanchaidh-Coille-The-Memory-Keeper-Forest\/dp\/177206016X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seanchaidh na Coille \/ The Memory-Keeper of the Forest: Anthology of Scottish-Gaelic Literature of Canada by Michael Newton (2015) <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Were-Indians-Sure-Enough-Highlanders\/dp\/0971385807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We&#8217;re Indians Sure Enough: The Legacy Of Scottish Highlanders In North America by Michael Newton (2001) <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Other-Side-Sorrow-Scottish-Highlands-ebook\/dp\/B00LDYLSH6\/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1448822422&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=On+The+Other+Side+Of+Sorrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On The Other Side Of Sorrow: Nature And People In The Scottish Highlands by Jim Hunter (1996) <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/White-People-Indians-Highlanders-Encounters\/dp\/0199737827\/ref=la_B000AQ6ZAI_1_6?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1449172551&amp;sr=1-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White People, Indians And Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters In Scotland And America <\/a>by Colin Calloway (2010)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the advantages that\u00a0accompany engagement\u00a0with one&#8217;s Gaelic heritage are the\u00a0wonderful and useful bits of relevance\u00a0that a Gaelic past brings to modern life. That&#8217;s right. Lessons learned from a Gaelic perspective can be productively relevant to difficult problems we face\u00a0today. 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