ERIC Number: EJ1406473
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0004-3125
EISSN: EISSN-2325-5161
Unsettling a Land-Grant University: Listening2indigenous as Decolonizing Instagram
Elizabeth Healey; Rosemary Aviste; Michelle S. Bae-Dimitriadis
Art Education, v76 n6 p10-17 2023
How can digital art--based research counter Indigenous eradication and settler replacement enacted by land-grant universities (LGUs)? How can non-Indigenous settlers ethically engage in decolonizing work? With these questions, our art-based research project emerged from a spring 2021 Pennsylvania State University (PSU) graduate seminar, Land Politics and Art Inquiry in, taught by Bae-Dimitriadis. Drawing on decolonizing and settler colonial studies, our class discussions on unheard place stories of Indigenous peoples and settler colonial violence on land led us to investigate the land we occupy. A U.S. LGU was the departure of our collaborative art-based research by creating the Listening2Indigenous Instagram (n.d.), aiming to acknowledge Indigenous knowledges and perspectives and unsettle settler colonial hegemonic imperatives. The project emerged from discussions on how we engage in the history of the land we inhabit at an LGU as residents within the United States, a settler nation. Our assessment critically probed what constitutes an LGU and what (un)noticed stories and contexts are behind the title of an LGU. Through reflecting on this process, this article discusses what is involved in the land-conscious art-based research and how we, as non-Indigenous, can ethically engage in decolonizing land-based work.
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Land Grant Universities, Racism, Decolonization, United States History, Colonialism, American Indian History, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Art Activities, Art Products, Consciousness Raising
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania
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