Storywork, Healing, and Creative Sovereignties: Indigenous Pedagogies of Resurgence Across Lands, Languages, and Generations

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 3:45 pm - Gold 2

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This roundtable centers story, art, and language as healing pedagogies of resurgence within Indigenous education. Presenters explore how narrative, creative practice, and historical reclamation become transformative sites of learning, healing, and resistance. Drawing from Diné, Mapuche, and Salvadoran contexts, and from Indigenous educator collectives in the Americas, the papers illuminate how grief, joy, and story co-produce knowledge rooted in community continuance. Through methodologies of walking, storytelling, and creative expression, participants reveal Indigenous education as lived sovereignty—embodied in art, voice, and intergenerational teaching. Collectively, this session affirms storytelling as both theory and method, showing how creative pedagogies sustain Indigenous futures through healing, relation, and the reclamation of intellectual and cultural space.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Papers

• Como Los Antiguos Caminantes: Walking the Land Undoing Learning with Indigenous Grassroots Research - Ymasumac Marañón Davis, University of San Diego

• Indigenous Normal Schools: the struggle to build an intellectual formation? - Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailón, University of Nevada - Reno

• Queering Reindigenization: Grief, Language Nests, and Diasporic Healing in the Salvadoran Diaspora - Claudia Alvarenga, University of California - Los Angeles

• Teachings from a Diné youth: Representing Hozho through story - Tifiny Mills, Utah State University; Christina Morgan, Utah State University; Eileen Quintana, Nebo School District; Breanne K. Litts, Utah State University; Dallas Haws, Utah State University; Analysa Allison, Nebo Title VI Indian Education; Natalie Billie, Nebo Title VI Indian Education Program

Discussant

• Miguel Angel Garcia-Bocanegra, Northwestern University