Rehearsals for Living

Glen is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in political science and First Nations and Indigenous studies at the University of British Columbia, and the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, among other powerful works.

Leanne is Michi Saagiig Anishinaabek musician, writer, and academic, and is the author of eight books, including As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance, Rehearsals for Living, which is a book of correspondence with Robyn Maynard, and Theory of Water: Anishinaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.

Welcome to Another Education is Possible.

So the, the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning was founded in 2009 with the mission of supporting indigenous land-based education, research, and community programs rooted in northern indigenous knowledge and values.

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... um, maybe we can zoom out a little bit and, and think about your work with Robin Maynard.

Um, in Rehearsals for Living, you, you talk about this notion of simultaneously world dismantling and world making projects.

I, I wonder how you conceive of that in relation to Decinta.