Indigenous Education, Decolonization, and Reinvigorating the Work of Our Ancestors
Indigenous Education, Decolonization, and Reinvigorating the Work of Our Ancestors
- Hollie A. KulagoHollie A. KulagoPennsylvania State University
- and Angela M. JaimeAngela M. JaimeUniversity of Saskatchewan
Summary
Indigenous peoples have always had their educational strategies and systems in place to pass on their Ways of Knowing from one generation to the next. Indigenous education is an ongoing process in which the curriculum comes from the land, language, and community from where their ancestors emerged. Many systems and Ways of Knowing have been disrupted by settler colonialism’s persistent attempts to erase Indigenous peoples from the lands and mainstream narrative. Indigenous decolonization of education intervenes the assimilative frameworks of western education in order to work toward Indigenous sovereignty of the minds, lands, peoples, and nations.
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- Education, Cultures, and Ethnicities
- Educational Theories and Philosophies
