On making love to death: Plains Cree and Blackfoot wisdom

摘要: My main role in my Faculty is to create, expand and enhance the opportunities students have to engage with Indigenous standpoints and experiences in association with curricular and pedagogical considerations. This is a new and unique role for our Faculty. My encounters with students can be difficult, contentious, and punctuated with various forms of resistance. I endeavour to be ever mindful of the ways in which these encounters are circumscribed by colonial logics11 and remember that all students, whoever they are, will naturally resist new knowledge that is intended to make some rather significant claims on them.In doing this work, I am also mindful of the troubling ways in which Indigenous knowledge systems and philosophies are often reduced to a cultural show-and–tell, couched in curricular terms as culturally-relevant or culturally-appropriate. In this model, what we call “culture” is distanced from the philosophies that inform it and instead framed in the Enlightenment traditions as an inorganic anthropological “thing” that provides an