“We Stick Out Our Tongues” De-essentializing for Decolonization: A Storywork Study on Indigenous Relationality
For Indigenous people, one of the most powerful acts of decolonization is reclaiming who we are and sharing our stories with the world. Indigenous relationality describes who we are in relation to all of creation. Our relationality is diverse, multifaceted, and inappropriately underrepresented in li...
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ftunivcalgary:oai:prism.ucalgary.ca:1880/113690 2023-08-27T04:10:29+02:00 “We Stick Out Our Tongues” De-essentializing for Decolonization: A Storywork Study on Indigenous Relationality Minet, Chantai Michelle Fellner, Karlee Mudry, Tanya Wada, Kaori Domene, Jose Hanson, Aubrey 2021-07-26 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1880/113690 https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39057 eng eng Werklund School of Education University of Calgary Minet, C. M. (2021). “We Stick Out Our Tongues” De-essentializing for Decolonization: A Storywork Study on Indigenous Relationality (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39057 http://hdl.handle.net/1880/113690 University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. Indigenous Indigenous Storywork Tlingit relationality decolonization reciprocity The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada counselling psychology film poetry Educational Psychology Psychology master thesis 2021 ftunivcalgary https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39057 2023-08-06T06:22:26Z For Indigenous people, one of the most powerful acts of decolonization is reclaiming who we are and sharing our stories with the world. Indigenous relationality describes who we are in relation to all of creation. Our relationality is diverse, multifaceted, and inappropriately underrepresented in literature. To date, much of the literature aiming to guide work with Indigenous people is essentializing, reducing Indigenous relationality into pan-Indigenous or uniform formulas that are inaccurate and harmful. This research directly addresses the issue of essentialization through exploring relationality. From an Indigenous (Lingít) research paradigm, I use Indigenous Storywork (ISW) to explore and amplify four Indigenous graduate students’ diverse experiences of their Indigenous relationality. Our filmed research conversations, stories, and poetry took on a life of their own, leading to a collective meaning-making circle and reciprocity poetry as an expression of Indigenous relationality. This study provides insight around the construction and preservation of Indigenous relationality and addresses the essential role of reciprocity within Indigenous relationality. This study is a courageous, decolonizing, reciprocity effort that honours our Indigenous relationality and our respective Indigenous and academic communities. This study responds to the recommendations made in Psychology’s Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Report, and creates space for reclamation, reconciliatory conversations, and social change. Master Thesis Lingít tlingit PRISM - University of Calgary Digital Repository Canada |
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For Indigenous people, one of the most powerful acts of decolonization is reclaiming who we are and sharing our stories with the world. Indigenous relationality describes who we are in relation to all of creation. Our relationality is diverse, multifaceted, and inappropriately underrepresented in literature. To date, much of the literature aiming to guide work with Indigenous people is essentializing, reducing Indigenous relationality into pan-Indigenous or uniform formulas that are inaccurate and harmful. This research directly addresses the issue of essentialization through exploring relationality. From an Indigenous (Lingít) research paradigm, I use Indigenous Storywork (ISW) to explore and amplify four Indigenous graduate students’ diverse experiences of their Indigenous relationality. Our filmed research conversations, stories, and poetry took on a life of their own, leading to a collective meaning-making circle and reciprocity poetry as an expression of Indigenous relationality. This study provides insight around the construction and preservation of Indigenous relationality and addresses the essential role of reciprocity within Indigenous relationality. This study is a courageous, decolonizing, reciprocity effort that honours our Indigenous relationality and our respective Indigenous and academic communities. This study responds to the recommendations made in Psychology’s Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Report, and creates space for reclamation, reconciliatory conversations, and social change. |
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“We Stick Out Our Tongues” De-essentializing for Decolonization: A Storywork Study on Indigenous Relationality |
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