What’s Disability, and It’s Place In U.S History…Part One…Indigenous Beliefs on Disability..

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The modern view of reality is based in straight lines and angles. When someone goes somewhere or gives directions, the method of orientation is based on ‘straight ahead’, ‘turn left’ and ‘turn right’. But Nature doesn’t work that way, and neither does the traditional person. Everything in Nature goes in curves and circles, and the same is true about our going about. –Distant Eagle

Indigenous Perspective on Disability

Indigenous peoples with impairments separate their social identity from their experience of living with impairments, and their narratives revealed that they interpreted disability as a Western construct and a current manifestation of ongoing colonisation, if they were to comply with it.

What it means to be disabled today, is certainly different than what it meant to be disabled throughout history, particularly American History but one thing hasn’t changed, those with disabilities have had to struggle to find a place or even create a place for themselves in society.

Disability is not an unchanging category, disability is elusive and changing…