Indigenous Elderly in the United States: Wounded Bodies, Vivid Minds

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Published: May 31, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2012-3-1-271
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American Indian Aging Grandparenting Anishinaabe Ojibwe

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Heidrun Moertl
University of Graz, Austria

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This paper addresses age and aging from a critical humanities perspective and uses indigenous societies as an example on how to positively manage the aging process, and to show that certain societies’ positive approach to old age can help ameliorate the often negatively viewed phases of growing older, aging people’s bodies over the years, but not their minds.

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Moertl, H. “Indigenous Elderly in the United States: Wounded Bodies, Vivid Minds”. Linguaculture, vol. 3, no. 1, May 2012, pp. 93-102, doi:10.47743/lincu-2012-3-1-271.
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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012)
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Author Biography

Heidrun Moertl, University of Graz, Austria

Heidrun Moertl is a faculty member at the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. She holds a masters’ degree in English and American Studies from the University of Graz, Austria and Seattle University, USA. She is currently working on her dissertation in the fields of Indigenous Studies, Inter-American Studies and Aging Studies, for which she conducted ten months of extensive research at the University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, the Newberry Library in Chicago as well as fieldwork on several Minnesota reservations in 2011-2012 (Marietta-Blau Scholarship of the Austrian Government – BMWF). She is the co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of Comparative American Studies: An International Journal titled “Hemispheric Approaches to Native American Studies” (with Barrenechea, Maney Publishing, 2013) and the third volume of Aging Studies in Europe entitled “The Ages of Life”: Living and Aging in Conflict?" (with Kriebernegg and Maierhofer, transcript, 2013). Her research interests include Indigenous Studies, Inter-American Studies, Aging Studies and North American Cultural Studies. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the International Association of Inter-American Studies and on the Steering Committee of the Europe based American Indian Workshop.