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

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