Date of Award
2023
Document Type
Honors Thesis (Open Access)
Department
Colby College. English Dept.
Advisor(s)
Samantha Plasencia
Second Advisor
Chelsea Fairbank
Abstract
This thesis seeks to amplify Indigenous lifeways, diplomacies, sciences, diplomatic relations, and the power of storytelling. This is not a piece analyzing Indigenous culture. Rather, this thesis returns the gaze to the settler colonial state, specifically its storytelling ideologies, to show that systemic practices of inequity in storytelling can be disrupted and decolonized through a recentering of Indigenous ideologies. For example, reciprocity with lands and animals, reflection on positionality and decentering colonial understandings of time and place.
Keywords
Indigenous storytelling, storytelling, decoloniality, praxis, positionality, reciprocity
Recommended Citation
Goodman, Georgia, "Indigenous Storytelling as Decolonial Praxis, Ceremony and at Colby" (2023). Honors Theses. Paper 1396.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/1396