ERIC Number: EJ1315005
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1076-0180
EISSN: EISSN-1994-0219
Race, Power, and Place: Lakota Lessons from Pine Ridge Reservation
Carwile, Christey
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, v27 n1 p129-153 Win 2021
Drawing on three years of partnership with residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, I discuss some of the insights and challenges of working toward a critical community engagement that is antiracist, anti-colonial, and "place-engaged" (Siemers et al., 2015). I specifically reflect on how the bridging of academic practice with Indigenous models of teaching and learning can offer a powerful way to center social justice in community engagement work. I model this approach by discussing academic concepts and pedagogies used in the classroom alongside Lakota concepts and stories shared during our engagement. I then include the voices of students as they critically reflect on lessons of racial privilege, Indigenous survivance, and reciprocity/allyship. Lastly, this article is my own attempt at some form of reciprocation, as a way to respond to the common expectation that many Lakota elders/teachers expressed during our time with them--that we share these lessons beyond the Reservation. [The page range (129-154) on .pdf is incorrect. The correct page range is p129-153.]
Descriptors: Reservation American Indians, Indigenous Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Social Justice, Culturally Relevant Education, Student Attitudes, Racial Bias, Social Behavior, Tribes, Service Learning, Cultural Awareness, Consciousness Raising, School Community Relationship, Reflection, Place Based Education, Cultural Differences, Land Settlement
Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, University of Michigan. 1024 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3310. Tel: 734-647-7402; Fax: 734-647-7464; Web site: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mjcsl
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Dakota
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