Conference session

This presentation will explore the use of Métis dream-work as an embodied methodological practice and how its application enables new insights into First Nations and Métis land- and culture-theft. Drawing on research from my Master’s thesis, I will demonstrate how Métis dream-work creates knowledge not bound to or by academia or Western institutions. Attendees will learn about the process of creating and implementing an embodied, culturally specific research method within academia. These insights offer a more nuanced understanding of how incorporating culturally specific and embodied methodologies into academia can minimize the risk of (re)inflicting violences that academia has perpetuated against First Nations, Métis, and Inuit cultures, lands, and peoples for centuries. Those who would most benefit from this presentation include students and scholars interested in incorporating their own culturally specific methodologies into their work, as well as those working toward decolonization within higher education or those working directly with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit university students.