Indigenous Perspectives on Knowledge that Colonialism Tries to Forget and Indigenous Peoples Seek to Remember

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session brings together researchers from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Peru and Norway whose work documents the efforts made by Indigenous communities to remember the past while imagining a future free from the epistemic violence of colonialism. It will draw attention to the epic intergenerational efforts of Indigenous Peoples to remember the past and imagine futures where their knowledge systems, languages, cultures and descendants will thrive. The presenters will address the topic from their different contexts and histories, different disciplinary approaches and focus on different aspects of education, such as land based education, immersion language education, food sovereignty practices and community history projects where both the past and the future are intimately woven together.

Sub Unit

• International Relations Committee

Chair

• Linda T. Smith, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi

Papers

• Ngā Hanganga Matua o te Whakaako Hītori: Critiquing the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum Reset - Nēpia Mahuika, Massey University; Richard Francis Manning, University of Canterbury

• Precarity and Stepping Stones to Indigenous Futures - Nikki Moodie, University of Melbourne

• Dreaming Futures, Remembering Histories: Sámi Teachers’ Visions for Land-Based Curriculum Renewal - Ylva Yannock Nutti, Sami University of Applied Sciences; Berit-Ellen Juuso, Sami University of Applied Sciences

• Reimagining Futures Through the Lens of Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Knowledge Systems - Mariaelena Huambachano, Syracuse University

Session Organizer

• Linda T. Smith, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi

Discussants

• Megan Bang, Northwestern University

• Stephanie Fryberg, Northwestern University