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A conceptual review of a land-informed Native American Death Pedagogy: Overcoming settler colonialism and the Western Death System towards possibilities and futurities.

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Title: A conceptual review of a land-informed Native American Death Pedagogy: Overcoming settler colonialism and the Western Death System towards possibilities and futurities.
Authors: Purvis, Rye (AUTHOR)
Source: Death Studies. 2026, Vol. 50 Issue 6, p884-894. 11p.
Subjects: Death & psychology, Attitudes toward death, Social justice, Cultural values, Bereavement, Conceptual structures, Practical politics, Interment, Grief, Health equity, Psychology of Native Americans, Hospice care
Abstract: Land is central to and holds agency in death and dying belief and knowledge systems within Native American communities in North America. These land-informed belief and knowledge systems serve as the foundation for a Native American Death Pedagogy. Possibilities and futurities of Native American Death Pedagogy has been negatively impacted by historical and ongoing effects of settler colonialism. As settler colonialism functions to eliminate Native American lifeways, it simultaneously makes space to replace with Western socio-political systems and frameworks. For death and dying practices, these Western socio-political systems and frameworks can be referred to as a Western Death System—an expansion of Robert Kastenbaum's theory of the Death System. Through experiential knowledge and a conceptual review, this article will address the significance of land in Native American Death Pedagogy and the challenges from the Western Death System. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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