mrjess_bhs's review
5.0
This is such a powerful and complex text that centers indigenous ways of knowing and being in educations from birth to death. There is a lot that is unfamiliar to me and a lot that resonated. For anyone who is attempting to decolonize their minds, their curriculum, their systems, this is a must read. It both affirmed the path I have committed to and challenged me about how far I still have to go on that path and in my work. This isn’t anything like your average academic text, as it might seem fragmented with different styles and focuses of the various contributors, but it is stronger because of that. Alex RedCorn has a beautiful essay in this volume about Osage ribbon work and the weaving of all the complexities of indigeneity and navigating a colonized world with colonized institutions, and that ribbon work was done here with this book. Huge shout out to Chelsea Craig who taught us in Danforth 34 so much, and contributed her wisdom to this text as well.
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