Critical Listening and Storying: Fostering Respect for Difference and Action Within and Beyond a Native American Literature Classroom

Abstract

Relying on the intersections of Indigenous Research Methodologies and Humanizing Research, the authors of this article argue that by re-centering relationships through critical listening and storying, we are better suited to co-construct our shared truths and realities in the space between the telling and hearing of stories. As we do so, we move beyond the sometimes dehumanizing “slash” of researcher/participant and professor/student and into more fertile spaces where our collective desires for educational, political, and social change are forged because of our commitment to sustaining meaningful relationships as well as our refusal to ignore our impact on each other.