Indigenous Pedagogies: Exploring Diaspora, Nepantla, and Borderland Mestizaje Feminism

• In Event: Roundtable Session 56
  In Roundtable Session: Invigorating Indigenous Identities and Pedagogies

Abstract

As a person of Mexican American Indigenous heritage raised in the borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico, this paper explores identity, positionality, and decolonization for the purpose of reclaiming traditional knowledges and ways of being through auto-ethnography. The concepts of indigenous diaspora and nepantla are explored through a framework of Borderland Mestizaje Feminism, recognizing a place-based indigenous approach to pedagogy as fundamental to shifting education from a tool of assimilation into a tool of liberation and healing.

Author

• Marissa Munoz, The University of British Columbia