4) In this light, "decolonizing" is not a path carved with tools of shame, but is a path laid down in the recognition of our own healing (all of us). In this way, healing is our common kinship. Cultivating and embodying an ethic of seeing one another in this light (as people on a journey to heal their sense and understanding of kinship), allows for and asks that spaces of learning to be supportive of this walking.
For non-Indigenous teachers and students who don't come from a cultural cosmology that holds sacred one's place within circles & spirals of kinship -- I believe it becomes incumbent upon spaces & models of learning (schools/classrooms, curriculum structures, etc) to offer and uphold pathways in to spaces where understanding our kinships & relationalities can be felt. (i.e. thin spaces) AND it becomes incomubent upon the educator to see each student for where they are and the fullness of their capabilities to be an honourable part of the circle.
HERE, art becomes invaluable as a carver of those pathways, and art as conduit to relationship with the land even more-so.
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