Tag: Indigenous Sovereignty
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Two-Eyed Seeing
As I started reading about Indigenous sovereignty earlier this year, I was introduced to the topic of two-eyed seeing. It’s an approach to research, planning, and policy that aims to include both western and Indigenous worldviews. Is two-eyed seeing simply another academic construct to maintain the status quo, or can it actually support the dismantling…
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Unlearning
My progress this first month has been chiefly reading and reflections. Reading Leanne Simpson’s As We Have Always Done and re-reading Dori Tunstall’s Decolonizing Design has caused me to reconsider my relationship with the land as a white colonial settler of European descent. I am grappling with fresh questions about my positionality. In what ways…