Working from the premise that learning to live well in our places is quickly becoming a necessity of human survival, in this article we weave together divergent experiences of our shared place, the Wabanaki Confederacy or Eastern Canada, and literatures and literacies of that place. This article is methodologically framed using the concept of…

The article theorizes the possibilities of a decolonizing methodology in a reading of David Bouchard's Cree-English dual language picture books "Nokum is My Teacher" and "The Drum Calls Softly." Paulo Freire's (1971) call to educators to become teacher-learners and Luis Urrieta Jr.'s (2007) concept of "figured worlds"…