Muskrat Theories, Tobacco in the Streets, and Living Chicago as Indigenous Land

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Muskrat Theories, Tobacco in the Streets, and Living Chicago as Indigenous Land

Abstract/Description

In this paper, we aim to contribute to ongoing work to uncover the ways in which settler colonialism is entrenched and reified in educational environments and explore lessons learned from an urban Indigenous land-based education project. In this project, we worked to re-center our perceptual habits in Indigenous cosmologies, or land-based perspectives, and came to see land re-becoming itself. Through this recentering, we unearthed some ways in which settler colonialism quietly operates in teaching and learning environments and implicitly and explicitly undermines Indigenous agency and futurity by maintaining and reifying core dimensions of settler colonial relations to land. We describe examples in which teachers and community members explicitly re-engaged land-based perspectives in the design and implementation of a land-based environmental science education that enabled epistemological and ontological centering that significantly impacted learning, agency, and resilience for urban Indigenous youth and families. In this paper, we explore the significance of naming and the ways in which knowledge systems are mobilized in teaching and learning environments in the service of settler futurity. However, we suggest working through these layers of teaching and learning by engaging in land-based pedagogies is necessary to extend and transform the possibilities and impacts of environmental education.

Author/creator

Bang, Megan

Curley, Lawrence

Kessel, Adam

Marin, Ananda

Suzukovich, Eli S.

Strack, George

Date

2014

In publication

Environmental Education Research

Volume

20

Issue

1

Pages

37-55

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Empirical

Keywords

Erratum

land education

place

place-based education

settler colonialism

urban Indigenous youth

Open access/full-text available

en Yes

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

1350-4622

DOI

10.1080/13504622.2013.865113

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Taylor & Francis)

Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)

Citation

Bang, M., Curley, L., Kessel, A., Marin, A., Suzukovich, E. S., & Strack, G. (2014). Muskrat Theories, Tobacco in the Streets, and Living Chicago as Indigenous Land. Environmental Education Research, 20(1), 37–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2013.865113

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