What Is the Responsibility of Native Land Acknowledgment? Building Co-Resistance Toward Co-Liberation of All Life

• In Event: Research for Survivance: Indigenous Educational Praxis

Abstract

We are early-tenure Native women faculty, navigating how we engage the agenda of Native sovereignty in our roles as artivist scholar-teachers. We consider our responsibility to the land, to the Native nations of the land, California Indian nations, and to our Black kin. Our work is on-going and relational to each other and our contexts working in a large, public university system. We push our institutions to move beyond Native land acknowledgement as words, and into spaces of actionable allyship and partnership for our present futures and the next seven generations via a decolonial lens. This paper describes how we build new identities and make meaning of relationships in a constellation of co-resistance and embody Native land acknowledgement and responsibility.

Authors

• Nicole Blalock, California State University - Northridge

• Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval, Stanislaus State