Project Title: Native American Death Pedagogy: Overcoming Settler Colonialism and the Western Death System Towards Land-Informed Possibilities and Futurities
Rye Purvis, University of California, Davis
Rye Purvis is originally from Moriarty, New Mexico and is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She is a PhD candidate in the Native American studies department at University of California, Davis. Rye received an Associates of Science in the Funeral Service Education program at American River College in December 2023. Her research is about advocating for Native American death and dying socio-political frameworks through the fields of death studies and death education. Death studies and death education includes research and literature on laws, policies, healthcare, environmental justice, medical science, religion, and human rights. This research aims to not only begin to recognize and uplift Native American presence and challenge educational knowledge gaps that have failed to meet communities needs in death and dying but ultimately reinforce the self-determination of Tribes in the cyclical care of community and land.
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