Indigenous Spaces in Urban Places: A Documents-Based Inquiry into the Indigenizing Geographies of Urban Indigenous Organizations
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Authors
Kaiser, Nichol
Date
2025-01-30
Type
thesis
Language
eng
Keyword
Decolonize , Indigenize , Urban Indigenous community , Indigenous pedagogy , Indigenous research methods
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This dissertation will tell you two interrelated stories. Firstly, this project will tell a story about how the urban Indigenous community in Cataraqui/Katarokwi/kingston Indigenizes lands and spaces claimed and occupied by settler/non-Indigenous people, using documents, virtual presence, and other material available in the public domain. Secondly, this dissertation tells the story of my family and how we have navigated through the foggy territory of Indigeneity, passing for white, residential “school,” love, abuse, and dysfunction Kingston. Using Indigenous research methods and presented as a dialogical discourse, I’m talking to you, the reader, both about the general and the personal stories rather than presenting a western dissemination of facts. This project provides a springboard for community-based research with urban Indigenous communities and their Indigenizing practices, should there be interest in such a project. It also demonstrates how allowing Indigenous epistemologies to guide research can lead to unsettling the status quo within the academy and generate research/stories that speak to Indigenous cosmologies, heart knowledge, land relations, and lifeways. This opens new possibilities for Indigenous research within the academy.
Indigenous Peoples are reconnecting to their ancestral communities, languages, and cultures and building from them to create urban Indigenous communities that deal with contemporaneous issues facing Indigenous Peoples. Rather than passively waiting for the government to address such things as homelessness, hunger, addiction, and the loss of culture/language/land attachments (for example) that affect Indigenous Peoples disproportionally, urban Indigenous communities are using their resilience and cultural knowledges to tackle these (and other) issues themselves. Let’s discover how this is happening together! This story will begin at the beginning and the content will flow as it develops itself.
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