Leadership from a Syilx perspective rooted in captikʷɬ
department or school: Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Derrickson, Aaron
issued: 2024-08-08T17:39:36Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This thesis seeks to understand Syilx leadership through traditional stories (captikʷɬ) and Nsyilxcn. Syilx concepts of leadership are explored through four captikʷɬ: How Coyote Got His Name and Powers; Coyote, Horse, and Dog; Coyote, Porcupine, and the Flies; and The Four Food Chiefs. I discuss power, story, and Syilx leadership and the intersections therein through an analysis of these captikʷɬ in conjunction with the wider academic literature on leadership. The first three captikʷɬ are mechanisms for changing anti-social behaviors, while The Four Food Chiefs activates pro-social behaviors. The methodology research paradigm is what I call Enowkinwixʷ Research Paradigm (ERP). The ERP follows Enowkinwixʷ theory and methodology that are inherently Syilx. I juxtapose these tools with other existing scholarly approaches as a means of demonstrating the contemporary utility of an Indigenous Syilx paradigm for leadership. Leadership in this research comes from a Syilx perspective and is defined through two distinct aspects. Firstly, through the captikʷɬ - leadership is care for land, the people, and all living things. Secondly, through the Nsyilxcn language- the word for leader, yilmixʷm, defines an imperative for the leader as someone who continuously brings together the various strands of community. Traditional Syilx leadership, as learners of captikʷɬ, were empathetic in that the captikʷɬ established the means for that empathy. Empathy, or the ability to read into how our actions affect the emotional state of others, was mobilized in Syilx leadership through Enowkinwixʷ, a complex concept that originates in the The Four Food Chiefs. Findings in the literature, show that power is a resource present in human interactions, and is especially relevant to leadership. In the Syilx worldview, power is shared within various leadership functions (i.e. The Four Food Chiefs), and is represented in community. The foreign introduction of power presented a colonial interruption that …
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note: LEADERSHIP FROM A Syilx PERSPECTIVE ROOTED IN captikʷɬ by Aaron Derrickson A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) August 2024  Aaron Derrickson, 2024ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation entitled: LEADERSHIP FROM A Syilx PERSPECTIVE ROOTED IN captikʷɬ submitted by Aaron Derrickson in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Jeannette C. Armstrong, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisor Dr. John Wagner, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Michael Evans, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Allison Hargreaves, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University Examiner Dr. Jean-Paul Restoule, University of Victoria External Examiner iii Abstract This thesis seeks to understand Syilx leadership through traditional stories (captikʷɬ) and Nsyilxcn. Syilx concepts of leadership are explored through four captikʷɬ: How Coyote Got His Name and Powers; Coyote, Horse, and Dog; Coyote, Porcupine, and the Flies; and The Four Food Chiefs. I discuss power, story, and Syilx leadership and the intersections therein through an analysis of these captikʷɬ in conjunction with the wider academic literature on leadership. The first three captikʷɬ are mechanisms for changing anti-social behaviors, while The Four Food Chiefs activates pro-social behaviors. The methodology research paradigm is what I call Enowkinwixʷ Research Paradigm (ERP). The ERP follows Enowkinwixʷ theory and methodology that are inherently Syilx. I juxtapose these tools with other existing scholarly approaches as a means of demonstrating the contemporary utility of an Indigenous Syi…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0445033
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Armstrong, Jeannette
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88907