58.065 - This Is Yanaguana: Reframing Indigenous Texas for Environmental Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Known to some as Yanaguana, San Antonio, Texas, is the shared territory of many Indigenous peoples, including the Coahuilteca, Tlaxcalteca, Apache and Comanche peoples. As respectful relatives and colleagues, we are a group of scholars who are committed to learning from, and enacting, the heritage epistemologies on the Lands where we live and work. We turn to local Indigenous scholars and knowledge-holders to critically examine the overlaps and disjunctures between Environmental and Indigenous approaches to education, in ways that express our commitment to Land and to place. In these troubled times, we hold fast to our responsibility to decolonize and enact education in the service of Indigenous futurity; for justice for the Lands and for the peoples of the Lands.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Cosponsor

• SIG-Environmental Education

Chair

• Alexa Scully, Kativik School Board

Papers

• The Colonial Difference Along the Rio Grande: Implications for Educational Equity - Dolores Calderon, Western Washington University

• Tracing Indigenous Healing Knowledge From the Saberes of Women Living in a Place Called the U.S./Mexico Border. - Silvia Patricia Solis, University of Utah

• Pedagogies of Water: Restoring and Restorying the Traditional Knowledge of Tejas - Marissa Munoz, The University of British Columbia

• Death of the Ocelotl: Colonialism and Imperialism on the Rio Grande River - Rosalva Resendiz, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Ramon Resendiz, Texas Woman's University