Radical Acts of Re-imaging Ethical Relationality and Trans-systemic Transformation

Vicki Kelly

doi:10.15402/esj.v7i1.70759

Abstract

 This Indigenous métissage explores my engagement in Indigenous Arts-based Inquiry as a practice of Anishinaabe Ozihtoon or Indigenous making and knowledge generation. Anishinaabe Ozhitoon is a site that unlocks the theoretical potentialities of the intelligences within Indigenous Knowledge practices in contemporary contexts and reanimates Indigenous land-based assurgence. Reviving Indigenous artistic practices, as sites of co-imagining through constellations of co-creation, is part of ecological and community-based reconciliation and healing. Key to this process is the act of reciprocal recognition, a core practice that fosters ethical relationality, helps cultivate our Indigeneity, and honours the circle of life. This Indigenous métissage tracks the Indigenous pedagogical processes and Indigenous art making used in my own praxis and inquiry as a scholar while I worked in a university to create three pathways for trans-systemic knowledge creation: a university-wide President’s Dream Colloquium with an accompanying graduate course; a graduate diploma in Indigenous Education: Education for Reconciliation and a master’s in Indigenous Education: Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Resurgence; and the Indigenous Research Institute initiation of an Indigenous Ethics Dialogue process as a trans-systemic pedagogical engagement with Indigenous and Western Knowledges, values, and ethics.

Highlights

What you will encounter in the following is a braided text, told mainly through my perspective, animated through three story threads that weave my various experiences with my emerging understandings generated through a living inquiry over time, and rendered into this Indigenous métissage
In the Indigenous inquiry praxis described above, we are invited into a profound participatory pedagogy that leads to transforming ourselves and re-imagining our worlds in ways that radically re-animate our relationships to who we are as human beings and what it means to live ethically and responsibly with All Our Relations
Strand Two: The Story Threads of my Indigenous métissage, I braid dialogically some of my experiences and reflections on the process of enacting my emerging vision by introducing Indigenous Knowledge practices, ceremony, and Indigenous pedagogies through cultivating Many-Eyed Seeing and creating ethical spaces within a Canadian institutional context

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Introduction

What you will encounter in the following is a braided text, told mainly through my perspective, animated through three story threads that weave my various experiences with my emerging understandings generated through a living inquiry over time, and rendered into this Indigenous métissage.

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