Remembering Msit No'kmaq: Self-in-Relation Métissage

Scott, Michelle Elizabeth

Remembering Msit No'kmaq: Self-in-Relation Métissage

dc.contributor.advisor	Poitras Pratt, Yvonne
dc.contributor.author	Scott, Michelle Elizabeth
dc.contributor.committeemember	McDermott, Mairi
dc.contributor.committeemember	Donald, Dwayne
dc.date	2023-06
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-27T17:30:15Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-27T17:30:15Z
dc.date.issued	2023-04-21
dc.description.abstract	In the spirit of relationship renewal and repair, I ask the question: How can we begin to enact our responsibilities to learn how to be good relatives to each other, the Land, and our other-than-human kin that is outside of the settler-colonial violence that Canada is built on? I suggest a necessary first step is to take our own self-reflective journey(s) of self-in-relation (Graveline, 1998) to locate our unique kinship networks of relationality and responsibility across time and space. In my research, I centred my embodied personal theory-making (Simpson, 2017), kinship relationality (Donald, 2021) and relationships to Land (Simpson, 2014, 2017; Styres, 2011, 2017, 2019) as a Mi’kmaw and Irish/English woman who has lived in Moh’kins’tsis for twenty-two years, was born and raised in Oniatari:io, and has ancestral and kinship ties to my Mi’kmaw relatives in Ktaqmkuk. Through the process of creating my métissage, I came to know and conceptualize colonial shrapnel as the ways in which colonial violence is embedded within our bodies through generations of spiritual, emotional, and blood and bone memory, and Elemental Kinship as a way to repair and heal through direct relationship with the elements – water, fire, earth, and air. I offer these concepts as curricular apertures with an invitation to others who are interested in moving beyond a fractured identity (personally, and collectively) toward a curriculum of remembering msit no’kmaq (all my [their] relations) at their own sacred fire.
dc.identifier.citation	Scott, M. E. (2023). Remembering msit no’kmaq: self-in-relation métissage (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/116120
dc.identifier.uri	https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/dspace/40965
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary
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dc.subject	ethical relationality
dc.subject	self-in-relation
dc.subject	critical self-reflection
dc.subject	Indigenous Métissage
dc.subject	kinship relationality
dc.subject	Mi'kmaw
dc.subject.classification	Education--Curriculum and Instruction
dc.title	Remembering Msit No'kmaq: Self-in-Relation Métissage
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Education Graduate Program – Educational Research
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Education (EdD)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudent	I do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.