Towards Otherwise in Indigenous Education: Anishinaabe Beadwork Meets the Decolonial Imaginary

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Abstract

This study explores ways of knowing, being, and doing that are made present and possible through Anishinaabe creative practice and the role and value of beadwork as decolonial praxis. This study draws upon framings of desire and theoretical constructs of the future imaginary to delink learning from schooling and the wider world of educational policy and research that seek solutions within settler colonial institutions and structures. Inspired by concepts of generative refusal, fugitivity, and futurity, this study is guided by two main questions: 1) What learning and forms of knowledge are made present and possible through beadwork? 2) How does this learning and knowledge inform or gesture towards possible futures for Anishinaabe people and communities?

Author

• Melissa Twance, Lakehead University