Скачать или смотреть The Stories Shape Us: Truth-telling, Reconciliation and Indigenous Nationhood - Dr Jeff Corntassel

The first keynote in the Decolonising Truth in Australia seminar series, recorded 15 October 2020. Organised by the Alfred Deakin Institute and the Institute for Postcolonial Studies, these seminars were intended to initiate a critically important conversation about the possibilities and challenges of truth-telling in Australia.

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This talk discusses how Indigenous stories shape community protocols, governance, and place-based relationships. I start by examining limitations of the reconciliation discourse in Canada and examine Indigenous nationhood frameworks for promoting community justice and pathways for decolonization. Drawing on storytelling methodologies, I outline several pathways to justice and sustainable self-determination that are centered on Indigenous Resurgence, which is an emerging paradigm that reframes decolonization to focus on Indigenous nationhood and the regeneration of land relationships, community sustainability, and cultural practices.


Dr. Jeff Corntassel is a writer, teacher and father from the Cherokee Nation. He is currently Associate Professor in the Indigenous Studies Department at the University of Victoria and Acting Director of the Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement (CIRCLE). His research and teaching interests focus on “Everyday Acts of Resurgence” and the intersections between Indigenous resurgence, climate change, gender, and community well-being. He is currently completing work for his forthcoming book on Sustainable Self-Determination, which examines Indigenous climate justice, food security, and gender-based resurgence.