Ni'kma'jtut Mawita'nej -My People Let Us Gather Spirit in the Fringes: Reframing Through Relationality, Trans-conceptual Spaces, Creative Practice, and Intervention

dc.contributor.authorRhude, Sarah
dc.contributor.supervisorHunt, Sarah Tłaliłila’ogwa
dc.contributor.supervisorStark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-28T16:46:23Z
dc.date.available2023-04-28T16:46:23Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-04-28
dc.degree.departmentInterdisciplinary Graduate Programen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractSituated in my experience as an Indigenous educator, I have witnessed and experienced Indigenous people, knowledge, and relationships being systemically pushed to the fringes of Western education systems. Utilizing a specific circle framework which invites the reader into the role of witness, this thesis acts as a guide to understanding the Indigenous, art-based, research-creation (Loveless, 2019) methodologies and knowledges that were revealed to me over the period of four seasons. This research highlights how Indigenous, trans-conceptual (“The Bush Manifesto”, 2017) space in various emplaced locations of gathering and intervention, allows for the enactment of our natural agency (Maracle, 2021), where we are able to share our stories outside the grasp of the settler colonial systems we are in relationship with, but not of. In these spaces, we honour our laws, ways of knowing and being as Indigenous peoples who are away from our homelands, waters, and relatives. In these spaces, the sovereignty of host nations is affirmed. At the site of cross-cultural relationship, we bear witness to each other’s lives (Hunt & Holmes, 2015) and through the generation of shared knowledges, we are drawn closer to our own cultural locations. Creatively articulating and centering Indigenous freedom, hope and joy, and envisioning worlds outside the confines of colonialism and Western systems shifts perspective and allows for revisioning and reframing (Martineau 2014). Within these articulations, the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the systems they work within but are not of, are reframed and self-determined Indigenous spaces are recuperated from the fringes, “allowing them to dance in a new light” (Hunt, 2021). Through this reframing of relationality and vision sharing, a particular, situated intervention into systemic racism can be had. This work is done in relationship with and recognizing the authority of lək̓ʷəŋən law, ancestors, wind, peoples, land, plants, animals, and waters, as well as my responsibility to them.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/15045
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectIndigenousen_US
dc.subjecttrans-conceptualen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous methodologyen_US
dc.subjectcommunity art-based researchen_US
dc.subjectresearch-creationen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous educationen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous gatheringen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous pedagogyen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous sovereigntyen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous arten_US
dc.subjectIndigenous cultural practiceen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous freedomen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous joyen_US
dc.subjectFirst Nationsen_US
dc.subjectMi'kmaqen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous relationalityen_US
dc.subjectIndigenietyen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous governanceen_US
dc.subjectself-determinationen_US
dc.subjectSpirit in the Fringesen_US
dc.subjectsystemic racismen_US
dc.subjectsituated knowledgesen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous researchen_US
dc.subjectAgency of Knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectcoming ashore protocolsen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous circle frameworken_US
dc.subject2SLGBTQIA+en_US
dc.subjectIndigequeeren_US
dc.titleNi'kma'jtut Mawita'nej -My People Let Us Gather Spirit in the Fringes: Reframing Through Relationality, Trans-conceptual Spaces, Creative Practice, and Interventionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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