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Imagining and Enacting Indigenous Futures: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Education

Fri, April 10, 11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 303A

Session Type: Symposium

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What does it mean to inquire and plan across and through many generations? How do we understand the historical conditions, present realities, and future possibilities of education? This symposium addresses these questions through the lens of Indigenous beliefs and collective rights and responsibilities. We center Indigenous sovereignty – the inherent right to self-governance and to constructing Indigenous futures – and self-determination, the enactment of sovereignty in K-12 and postsecondary education. Presentations engage “unforgetting” colonial histories in federal and mission schooling and imagining futurities characterized by sovereign practices of care, culturally sustaining and revitalizing pedagogies, linguistic sovereignty, and education for cultural integrity and thrivance. The implications for education research, policy, and practice/praxis are emphasized.

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