Ontologies of Welcoming: Anishinaabe Narratives of Relationality and Practices for Educators

• Main Author: Ineese-Nash, Nicole
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Educate 2021
• Subjects: Curriculum and Instruction; Curriculum and Social Inquiry; Educational Assessment; Evaluation; and Research; Educational Methods; Archibald; anishina*
• Online Access: https://educate.bankstreet.edu/occasional-paper-series/vol2021/iss45/4; https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1388&context=occasional-paper-series

No matter which culture you belong to, or where on the planet you call home, each of us has an ethical responsibility to our first mother, the Earth. I would like to demonstrate what I have come to understand about relational ethics through Anishinaabe storywork and land-based knowledge systems as they may invite us to think differently about our relations to one another and the non-human world. Indigenous storywork is not merely fictional. Rather these stories exemplify our cultural teachings, understandings, and ways of living so that they may be carried through generations (Archibald, 2008).