Re-Storying the Past: Transforming the White Settler Colonial Stories that Formed Us

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dc.contributor.advisorFriesen, Sharon
dc.contributor.authorBensler, Heather
dc.contributor.committeememberMarkides, Jennifer
dc.contributor.committeememberMcDermott, Mairi
dc.date2022-11
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-05T17:14:49Z
dc.date.available2022-07-05T17:14:49Z
dc.date.issued2022-06
dc.description.abstractIn this study, I explore the ways Settler nurse educators understand their identity within the context of Canada’s colonial narrative. I provide a generative space for critical reflectivity on my own social location through creative, embodied explorations of my Settler-colonial story and experiences, Indigenous historical accounts, and dialogical engagement with Canada’s socio-historical configuration as a Settler nation-state. I consider the ways Whiteness , (DiAngelo, 2018a), Settler identity (Tuck & Yang, 2012; Wolfe, 2006), and Settler colonial logics act as barriers to transforming Settler understanding of Canada’s Settler colonial history and Indigenous sovereignty (Donald, 2009). Using Indigenous Métissage as a research sensibility, I engage in narrative and embodied practices to better understand and transform my relationship to self, land, and Canada’s colonial history. Through braided stories of place, practices, and historical perspectives, I examine the impact that Camp Chief Hector had on my White settler formation and its exclusionary and exploitative relationship with the Stoney Nakoda Nation. I consider a path towards reconciliation; one created by attending to respect and reverence, reciprocity, kinship relationality, and treaty responsibility. By thinking through my lived experiences as an entry point to engage Settler identity, I tell a more truthful account of Canadian history and of the current state of how Settler colonial logics influence the relationship between Settlers and Indigenous people.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBensler, H. (2022). Re-storying the past: transforming the white settler colonial stories that formed us (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39872
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/114802
dc.publisher.facultyWerklund School of Educationen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectWhite settler identityen_US
dc.subjectSettler colonial logicsen_US
dc.subjectTransformative practicesen_US
dc.subjectTruth and reconciliationen_US
dc.subjectKinship relationalityen_US
dc.subjectTreaty responsibilityen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous Métissageen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducationen_US
dc.subject.classificationNursingen_US
dc.titleRe-Storying the Past: Transforming the White Settler Colonial Stories that Formed Usen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEducation Graduate Program – Educational Researchen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Education (EdD)en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
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