Beyond Land Acknowledgments: Our Considerations as Asian American Settlers on Indigenous Lands

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Abstract

This conceptual paper draws on the authors’ experiences as Asian American educational settler/arrivant-scholars as we explore our relationships with indigenous communities, epistemologies, methodologies, science, ways of knowing, and worldviews as a critical element to our scholarship, teaching, and activism. We explore what it means for us, individually, but also collectively, as Asian American scholars to take the manifestations of coloniality, and indigenous erasure as lived realities in our work. We are co-thinking and co-writing this article as a U.S.-born, Indian-American Muslim professor and a Hong Kong born, U.S.-raised Chinese-American professor around the question, ‘what does it mean to be an Asian American settler/arrivant-scholar on indigenous land?’

Authors

• Arshad Imtiaz Ali, The George Washington University

• Clifford H. Lee, Northeastern University