Wrong Rocks: Counterstorying a Curriculum of Erasure in Manahatta/n

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Two
  In Roundtable Session: Place Consciousness in Curriculum and Praxis (Table 2)

Abstract

This study examines the public curriculum of absence, victimhood and mythology told by settler monuments and memorials about Indigenous Peoples in what is today known as New York City. We discuss the role these monuments play in normalization of settler ignorance (Pewewardy et. al., 2018) about Indigenous People. Through engagement with Tribal Critical Race Theory (Brayboy, 2005) we offer counterstories (Delgado, 1989) of several monuments in this study centering survivance (Vizenor, 2008) as curriculum, countering the ways the monuments exist now, as projects of settler futurity (Tuck & Gaztambide-Frenandez, 2013) we reimagine a way supporting Indigenous futurity.

Authors

• Rachel Talbert, Teachers College, Columbia University
  Presenting Author

• Deanne Green, Teachers College, Columbia University
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• Neal Paul Schick, Teachers College, Columbia University
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• David Vining, Teachers College, Columbia University
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