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    Making Peace With The Highwood River: One year in contemplative photographs and flows

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    Since the 2013 Alberta floods, my relationship with the Highwood River has been changing. Before the disaster, I had taken the power of the river for granted. Then, the floodwaters ravaged the community of High River—my home. In the time after the flood, I engaged in a study of place as part of a course in Holistic Approaches to Life and Living led by Elder, Bob Cardinal of the Maskekosihk Enoch Cree Nation. I observed the flows through my camera lens: visiting and re-visiting the river, observing the seasonal changes, forming a stronger connection to my place in the community, and healing from the disaster that impacted my life in immeasurable ways. Please join me on the berm, to contemplate the ebbs and flows of water over time and place, with our more-than-human relatives as they present themselves in quiet moments

    A Decolonizing Essay on Decolonizing Dissertations

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    Duoethnography for Reconciliation: Learning through Conversations

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    Positioned by our different cultural backgrounds and histories, we come together as educators to form an ethical space of engagement to discuss the complexities of truth and reconciliation in Canada. As an opening for our dialogue, we reflect on our earlier research—a duoethnographic reading of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action. We came to this work with little prior knowledge, and mixed feelings of nervousness, reverence, and responsibility. By sharing our journey, we may offer direction and support for others interested in beginning or furthering their own reconciliatory journeys. We invite readers to join in our conversations around coming together, negotiating collective responsibilities, making space for dialogue, and creating safety for making mistakes. As we walk together, we see this as a complex opening of possibilities, which requires continuous and simultaneous circling back and circling forward.PositionnĂ©es par nos milieux et nos antĂ©cĂ©dents culturels diffĂ©rents, nous nous retrouvons ensemble comme enseignantes pour former un espace Ă©thique oĂč discuter des complexitĂ©s de la vĂ©ritĂ© et rĂ©conciliation au Canada. En guise de dĂ©but de dialogue, nous rĂ©flĂ©chissons sur notre recherche antĂ©rieure, une lecture duo-ethnographique des 94 appels Ă  l’action de la Commission de vĂ©ritĂ© et rĂ©conciliation. Quand nous avons commencĂ© ce travail, nous avions peu de connaissances antĂ©rieures et ressentions Ă  la fois de la nervositĂ©, de la rĂ©vĂ©rence et un sens de responsabilitĂ©. En partageant notre parcours, nous espĂ©rons orienter et appuyer ceux et celles qui s’intĂ©resseraient Ă  entamer ou poursuivre leur propre processus de rĂ©conciliation. Nous invitons les lecteurs Ă  se joindre Ă  nos conversations portant sur le rassemblement, la nĂ©gociation de responsabilitĂ©s collectives, et l’établissement d’un d’espace pour le dialogue oĂč les gens se sentent Ă  l’aise de commettre des erreurs. En se dĂ©plaçant ensemble, nous entrevoyons des possibilitĂ©s complexes qui exigent des mouvements continus et simultanĂ©s vers l’avant et l’arriĂšre.Mots clĂ©s : rĂ©conciliation; duo-ethnographie; appels Ă  l’action; Ă©ducation, parcours de vi

    Duoethnography for Reconciliation: Learning through Conversations

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    Positioned by our different cultural backgrounds and histories, we come together as educators to form an ethical space of engagement to discuss the complexities of truth and reconciliation in Canada. As an opening for our dialogue, we reflect on our earlier research—a duoethnographic reading of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action. We came to this work with little prior knowledge, and mixed feelings of nervousness, reverence, and responsibility. By sharing our journey, we may offer direction and support for others interested in beginning or furthering their own reconciliatory journeys. We invite readers to join in our conversations around coming together, negotiating collective responsibilities, making space for dialogue, and creating safety for making mistakes. As we walk together, we see this as a complex opening of possibilities, which requires continuous and simultaneous circling back and circling forward.PositionnĂ©es par nos milieux et nos antĂ©cĂ©dents culturels diffĂ©rents, nous nous retrouvons ensemble comme enseignantes pour former un espace Ă©thique oĂč discuter des complexitĂ©s de la vĂ©ritĂ© et rĂ©conciliation au Canada. En guise de dĂ©but de dialogue, nous rĂ©flĂ©chissons sur notre recherche antĂ©rieure, une lecture duo-ethnographique des 94 appels Ă  l’action de la Commission de vĂ©ritĂ© et rĂ©conciliation. Quand nous avons commencĂ© ce travail, nous avions peu de connaissances antĂ©rieures et ressentions Ă  la fois de la nervositĂ©, de la rĂ©vĂ©rence et un sens de responsabilitĂ©. En partageant notre parcours, nous espĂ©rons orienter et appuyer ceux et celles qui s’intĂ©resseraient Ă  entamer ou poursuivre leur propre processus de rĂ©conciliation. Nous invitons les lecteurs Ă  se joindre Ă  nos conversations portant sur le rassemblement, la nĂ©gociation de responsabilitĂ©s collectives, et l’établissement d’un d’espace pour le dialogue oĂč les gens se sentent Ă  l’aise de commettre des erreurs. En se dĂ©plaçant ensemble, nous entrevoyons des possibilitĂ©s complexes qui exigent des mouvements continus et simultanĂ©s vers l’avant et l’arriĂšre.Mots clĂ©s : rĂ©conciliation; duo-ethnographie; appels Ă  l’action; Ă©ducation, parcours de vi

    Storytelling for Each Weaves a Blanket for All

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    The United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (Unicef, 1989), amongst other things, names the right to identity, the right to play and the right to a voice.  Storytelling weaves together all three. Stories are carried through song, sculpture, weavings, drawings and the told word.  To celebrate and nourish them is central to human health and to the work many of us do regardless of our job designations, wherever being a good listener is the primary skill we hone

    Colours of the Alphabet

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