Remembering Msit No'kmaq: Self-in-Relation Métissage ...

• Main Author: Scott, Michelle Elizabeth
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2023
• Subjects: ethical relationality; self-in-relation; critical self-reflection; Indigenous Métissage; kinship relationality; Mi'kmaw; Education > Curriculum and Instruction; Mi’kmaw
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/dspace/40965; https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/116120

In the spirit of relationship renewal and repair, I ask the question: How can we begin to enact our responsibilities to learn how to be good relatives to each other, the Land, and our other-than-human kin that is outside of the settler-colonial violence that Canada is built on? I suggest a necessary first step is to take our own self-reflective journey(s) of self-in-relation (Graveline, 1998) to locate our unique kinship networks of relationality and responsibility across time and space. In my research, I centred my embodied personal theory-making (Simpson, 2017), kinship relationality (Donald, 2021) and relationships to Land (Simpson, 2014, 2017; Styres, 2011, 2017, 2019) as a Mi’kmaw and Irish/English woman who has lived in Moh’kins’tsis for twenty-two years, was born and raised in Oniatari:io, and has ancestral and kinship ties to my Mi’kmaw relatives in Ktaqmkuk. Through the process of creating my métissage, I came to know and conceptualize colonial shrapnel as the ways in which colonial violence is ...