Black and Indigenous communities’ kinship with place and land are vital to understanding and honoring dynamic and intergenerational practices that motivate and sustain transformative efforts toward educational self-determination, resistance, and organizing. In this chapter, we share stories from our research with Black and Indigenous students, families, educators, organizers, and community members through a process of storying or storywork (Archibald, Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit. UBC Press, 2008; Toliver, Recovering Black storytelling in qualitative research: Endarkened storywork. Routledge, 2021). Drawing from theories on Black geographies and Indigenous land relations, we uplift the multifaceted ways US and Canadian Black and Indigenous communities’ connectedness with land, place, and communities of care orient their advocacy and self-determination in (re)creating and sustaining communal learning spaces toward relationality, resistance, and cultural revitalization. Lastly, we consider how their land and place relations offer more expansive and just conceptions of family and community engagement and the multiple meanings and actions that can be drawn from these stories.

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Storying Black and Indigenous Communities’ Place/Land Relations in Educational Engagement and Advocacy

  • Dana Nickson,
  • Shaneé Washington,
  • Kiana Smith,
  • Sefanit Habtom

摘要

Black and Indigenous communities’ kinship with place and land are vital to understanding and honoring dynamic and intergenerational practices that motivate and sustain transformative efforts toward educational self-determination, resistance, and organizing. In this chapter, we share stories from our research with Black and Indigenous students, families, educators, organizers, and community members through a process of storying or storywork (Archibald, Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit. UBC Press, 2008; Toliver, Recovering Black storytelling in qualitative research: Endarkened storywork. Routledge, 2021). Drawing from theories on Black geographies and Indigenous land relations, we uplift the multifaceted ways US and Canadian Black and Indigenous communities’ connectedness with land, place, and communities of care orient their advocacy and self-determination in (re)creating and sustaining communal learning spaces toward relationality, resistance, and cultural revitalization. Lastly, we consider how their land and place relations offer more expansive and just conceptions of family and community engagement and the multiple meanings and actions that can be drawn from these stories.