Circles and lines

Indigenous ontologies and decolonising climate change education

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ID18968992
AuthorsRiley Olstead (St. Francis Xavier University, corresponding author), Sutapa Chattopadhyay (St. Francis Xavier University)
Year2024
Volume14
Issue1
Pages41-58
Publication date2024-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSettler Colonial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1838-0743 • E-ISSN: 2201-473X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2201473x.2023.2226952
OpenAlexW4382682467
LanguageEN
Citations received2

In 2015, The Truth and Reconciliation Report (TRC) was released in Canada, outlining 94 Calls to Action which, include pushing Canadian post-secondary institutions to ethically engage Indigenous communities and knowledge systems.11 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015. https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Executive_Summary_English_Web.pdf. This paper seeks to respond to the TRC by offering a spatial analysis of the differences, broadly conceived, between Indigenous and western ontological structures. We consider these differences in terms of ‘circles and lines’ through a novice, settler understanding of how Mi’kmaw concepts of etuaptmumk (two-eyed seeing), netukulimk (conservation laws) and m’sɨt No’kmaq (all our relations) can be brought to support decolonial teaching and learning about such important and urgent matters as climate change. 3 (2020): 56–79, https://doi.org/10.18357/ijcyfs113202019700

Acknowledgement · Commission · Environmental ethics · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law

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