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Drumming Our Way Home

Intergenerational Learning, Teaching, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

by (author) Georgina Martin

foreword by Jo-ann Archibald

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2024
Category
NON-CLASSIFIABLE, NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Methods & Strategies, Indigenous Studies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774870115
    Publish Date
    Oct 2024
    List Price
    $29.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774870092
    Publish Date
    Oct 2024
    List Price
    $29.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774870085
    Publish Date
    Oct 2024
    List Price
    $99.00

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What does it mean to be Secwepemc? And how can an autobiographical journey to recover Secwepemc identity inform learning and teaching? Drumming Our Way Home demonstrates how telling, retelling, and re-storying lived experiences not only passes on traditional ways but also opens up a world of culture-based learning.

 

Georgina Martin was taken from her mother not long after birth in a tuberculosis hospital. Her experience is representative of the intergenerational trauma inflicted by the Canadian state on Indigenous Peoples. Here she tells her story and invites Elder Jean William and youth Colten Wycotte to reflect critically on their own family and community experiences. Throughout, she is guided by her hand drum, reflecting on its use as a way to uphold community protocols and honour teachings. Her journey provides a powerful example of reconnection to culture through healing, affirmation, and intergenerational learning.

 

Drumming Our Way Home is evidence of the value of storytelling as a tool for teaching, learning, and making meaning.

About the authors

Georgina Martin's profile page

Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem, PhD, is a member of the Stó:lō First Nation and has kinship in St’at’imc First Nation in British Columbia. Over a 45-year educational career, Q’um Q’um Xiiem has served as a school teacher, curriculum developer, researcher, author, university leader and professor. She is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia (UBC).

Q’um Q’um Xiiem’s scholarship relates to Indigenous knowledge systems, storywork and oral tradition, transformative education at all levels, Indigenous educational history, teacher and graduate education, and Indigenous methodologies. She is the author of Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit as well as many other publications.

In 2018, Q’um Q’um Xiiem was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada for her lifelong contributions to advancing Indigenous education in K–12 and post-secondary education through policy, programs, curricula, and research.

Jo-ann Archibald's profile page

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