Complicated pathways: settler Canadians learning to re/frame themselves and their relationships with Indigenous peoples

Expanding the University Music Ensemble: Lessons from an Intercultural Collaboration

“…Experiential learning that involves being in relationship with Indigenous peoples, entering Indigenous spaces, and participating in ceremonies, teachings and on-land activities, is an undeniably rich source of learning and decentering for non-Indigenous Canadians - Davis et al 2017 Building relationships and "being in relationship" are at the heart of this work. I met Angee Acquin and Hubert Francis in September 2017 at our first "Collaborative Communities" workshop that led to a sustained artistic partnership and the creation of How do we listen?…”

Decolonizing the Intercultural: A Call for Decolonizing Consciousness in Settler-Colonial Australia

“…Non-Indigenous discourses that aim to highlight the presence of coloniality whilst offering strategies to counter its impact will not necessarily lead towards decolonization. After documenting and assessing the websites of over 200 initiatives aiming to change non-Indigenous understandings of Indigenous peoples in Canada, Davis et al (2016) found that dominant discourses were often void of a critical engagement with colonization. Rather than promoting liberal goals of 'raising awareness' of Indigenous cultures and struggles, Davis et al (2016, p. 13) argue that decolonizing requires that we do not 'lose sight of the need to "unsettle" the settler colonial logic, narratives and practices embedded in everyday life'.…”

Narrating Colonial Silences: Racialized Social Work Educators Unsettling our Settlerhood

“…This is also my truth, my reality. By positioning myself as innocent, I know I am disconnecting from my responsibility for Indigenous justice and undermining my own struggle (Davis et al, 2017). This is the everyday contradiction I wrestle with (Chatterjee, 2018a).…”

“…Scholars have produced significant bodies of literature (e.g., Amadahy & Lawrence, 2009;Chatterjee, 2018aChatterjee, , 2018bKennedy-Kish & Carniol, 2017;Murad, 2011;Simpson et al, 2018;Walia, 2015;Wane et al, 2013;Wilson et al, 2015). Also, Settler Colonial Studies has been established as a new field since (Veracini, 2011), and Settler scholars are producing critical scholarship (e.g., Davis et al, 2017). And we have scholarship on critical Indigenous studies (e.g., Absolon, 2011;Alfred, 2005Alfred, , 2018Blackstock, 2017;Coulthard, 2007;Daschuk, 2013;Kennedy-Kish, 2017; SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement [SFU], 2017).…”

“…From critical antiracism (e.g., Badwall, 2015;Bakan & Dua, 2014;Razack, 2004;Tuck & Yang, 2012) we draw on both the macro processes of material political economy of white supremacy structured by global capitalism and neoliberalism, and the micro processes of how individuals embody white supremacy where it becomes a woven fabric of self-understanding enacted or resisted in everyday life. Similarly, from settler colonial studies (e.g., Davis et al, 2017;Rifkin, 2013;Wolfe, 2006Wolfe, , 2016, we draw on both the macro processes of displacement and dispossession by which Indigenous peoples are torn off their lands and livelihoods for the possession and inhabitation of Settlers, and the micro processes by which Indigenous and Settler individuals embody a self-understanding they enact or resist in everyday life. Finally, from critical Indigenous studies (e.g., Coulthard, 2007;Daschuk, 2013;SFU, 2017; TRC, 2015), we draw from both sides of the debate, where one side views decolonization and reconciliation as possible within the settler colonial nation-state, and the other side views these as impossible short of returning Indigenous land to its rightful stewards.…”