Black and Indigenous (and subjected to settler colonialism): Ann Marie Beals, Ciann L Wilson, ‘Mixed-blood: Indigenous-Black identity in colonial Canada’, AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2020 | settler colonial studies blog

Black and Indigenous (and subjected to settler colonialism): Ann Marie Beals, Ciann L Wilson, ‘Mixed-blood: Indigenous-Black identity in colonial Canada’, AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2020

25Mar20

Abstract: In thinking through Indigenous-Blackness in colonial Canada, we explored the ramifications of the intersections of mixed-blood Indigenous-Black identity with colonialism, racism, gender, and social determinants of health, and how the outcomes of such intersections manifest as erasure, racism, and fractured identity. This critical research is nested within the larger Proclaiming Our Roots project, which uses an arts-based community-based methodology to respect and represent local and global Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies, and utilizes digital oral storytelling, community mapping, and semi-structured interviews as research methods. Community members gathered in workshops held in Toronto and Halifax/Dartmouth, Canada, as these are sites where Indigenous and Black communities came together in the face of white colonial oppression. Community members and researchers told their stories and reshaped their geographies as acts of resistance. This work brings to the forefront Indigenous-Black identity, and how Indigenous-Black people manoeuvre within Western settler society.

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