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Land, Language, and Intergenerational Learning: Indigenous Pedagogies of Place, Kinship, and Continuance Across Generations and Geographies

Sat, April 11, 1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 1

Session Type: Paper Session

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This session explores how Indigenous communities sustain education through land, language, and kinship-based pedagogies. Presenters draw from Mapuche, Pueblo, Diné, Oaxacan, and Central Texas Indigenous educator contexts to illuminate intergenerational learning as a practice of continuance and self-determination. Collectively, these studies examine participatory, community-driven methods that revitalize ancestral languages, enact relational accountability, and challenge colonial schooling models. By centering territory, storytelling, and embodied cultural expression, each paper demonstrates how Indigenous educators and families reassert sovereignty within and beyond formal education systems. Together, these works reveal land and language as active teachers—grounding educational futures in ancestral presence, ethical responsibility, and the relational networks that sustain Indigenous knowledge across time, generations, and place.

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