nêhiyaw(Cree)-Metis Bajan Midekwe, Water Walker, kôhkom, Aunty with a PhD in INDG Studies. I answer to my future generations & am accountable to my Ancestors.
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Footage of my indigenous partner being attacked, unprovoked, in Battleford, SK by 3 white males.
Our 6 y/o daughter was in our truck and is traumatized.
Also attached is the public statement by my partner.
Police found them but have laid no charges.
Share widely.
“Water walking is about consciously engaging with the future.... What are your grandchildren going to say about you? [That] you were so obsessed with your phone, you didn’t look up and now there’s no more water left?” Ānako visiting scholar @tashakwe: https://t.co/b2QelXpp9l
I have been thinking about Indigenous land acknowledgements. If you really want to create that relationship from an Indigenous pedagogy, learn the acknowledgement in the Indigenous language of the land and waters you/your business/org/institution is situated in. The whole thing.
Wanna chat more or have thoughts to add? Check out the Indigenous Literary Studies Association - ILSA Virtual Gathering 2021 for a Black-Indigenous Solidarity panel I will be speaking at... https://t.co/RdR2OXwPKq.
As I apply for various jobs, the binary of identifying as either/or “Black” and “Indigenous” does not fit my reality as someone with clear and substantial generational connections on both ancestral lines as well as acceptance in multiple community circles.
Inclusive practices might recognize other modes of identity, allowing me to embrace both my cultures instead of forcing one or the other. Both identifiers applied equally without erasure. Just think: two boxes in one (maybe more)! A steal of a deal. The best kind of surprise....
We are excited to have some amazing Water Walkers share their stories including the late Josephine-Ba Mandamin's husband Andrew and Miigwaans Osawamick Sagassige from the Deaf Nation who will be sharing his experiences through an Indigenous based ASL interpreter!