<i>Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions</i>. Critical Indigeneities. By Susan Burch

Burghardt, Madeline

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“…Canadian colonial eugenics does not limit itself to control over human life: taking and controlling land and non-human life for settler benefit and profit comprises another eugenic impulse with disastrous ecological effects (Kelly and Rice forthcoming). These unjust and destructive betterment ideas and practices were woven into the building blocks of the Canadian nation-state, and, as such, continue to target bodies and lives (human and non-human) for dehumanization and elimination (Burch 2021).…”

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Towards Decolonial Choreographies of Co-Resistance

2023

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This article engages movement as a methodology for understanding the creative coalition work that we carried out for a project series called Into the Light (ITL) that used research from university archives to mount a museum exhibition and then develop an interactive public education site that counters histories and ongoing realities of colonial eugenics and their exclusionary ideas of what it means to be human in Canada’s educational institutions. We address different movement practices, both those initiated by ableist-colonial forces to destroy difference and by our coalition of co-resistors to affirm difference. We apply a decolonizing and Anishinaabe philosophical lens alongside a feminist disability-informed neomaterialist and dance studies one to theorize examples of ITL’s “choreographies of co-resistance”. Anishinaabe knowledge practices refuse and thus interfere with colonial-eugenic practices of erasure while enacting an ethic of self-determination and mutual respect for difference. The ripple effect of this decolonizing and difference-affirming interference reverberates through our words and moves at varying tempos through our bodies—traveling through flesh, holding up at bones, and passing through watery, stretchy connective tissue pathways. These are our choreographies of co-resistance as actions of mattering and world-building.

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Section: Choreographies Of Co-resistance In Motionmentioning

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Towards Decolonial Choreographies of Co-Resistance

2023

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“…72 Her file does not reflect whether or not she was paroled out in this manner, but the suggestion illustrates how forced confinement rippled across Indigenous lives to disrupt kinship networks, as Susan Burch has observed in her community-centered study of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians in Canton, South Dakota. 73 At least one Carlisle enrollee appears to have been sent from Carlisle to Canton, as well. 74 One of the last documents contained in Hannah' s file is an amazingly restrained letter written in her own hand, evidently after having been released from confinement: "Dear Sir," she addressed Lipps, "Would it be any bother to you to have the ' Arrow' sent to my present address.…”

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Wash Away Your Sins: Indigenous and Irish Women in Magdalene Laundries and the Poetics of Errant Histories

Whitt

2023

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

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The history of Magdalene laundries in Ireland is well-documented. Magdalene laundries also existed in the U.S., but their existence and impact are less widely known. In 1914, several young Indigenous women were sent from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to the House of the Good Shepherd in Reading, Pennsylvania as punishment for perceived behavioral infractions. Placing Indigenous and Irish women's experiences of forced confinement into conversation with one another, this article calls for a more capacious understanding of the legacy of the U.S. federal boarding school system and the carceral institutions that comprised the settler apparatus.

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“…Others analyse possibilities of place-based memory projects about historic institutions such as sites of conscience (Punzi, 2022;Steele, 2022). Burch documents practices of remembrance and oral history by Indigenous families and communities with a connection to the former Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota (US) (Burch, 2021). In the UK, the "Social History of Learning Disability" group at the Open University documents disability social history of historic institutions and International Journal of DISABILITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 3.3 December 2023 deinstitutionalisation from the perspectives of people with intellectual disability (Brownlee- Chapman et al, 2017).…”

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Listening to People with Intellectual Disability about Institutions

Steele,

Carnemolla,

Spencer

et al. 2023

IJDSJ

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Despite the ongoing impacts worldwide of institutionalisation on people with intellectual disability, the public knows little about large-scale disability institutions that have been the focus during the late 20th century of deinstitutionalisation efforts (historic institutions) and the people who lived there. An interdisciplinary team of researchers (including those with intellectual disability) undertook research with people with intellectual disability to explore what and how the public should learn and remember historic institutions. The project found that people with intellectual disability support community engagement with histories and lived experiences of historic institutions, in order to repair past wrongs, end contemporary practices of institutionalisation, segregation, and exclusion, and realise transformative equality and inclusion. People with intellectual disability should lead these initiatives, with appropriate support in recognising the very live memories and traumas associated with them. This article provides a model of inclusive research for turning the harms of past institutionalisation into an educational and reparative experience.

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Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions. Critical Indigeneities. By Susan Burch

Cited by 4 publications

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Towards Decolonial Choreographies of Co-Resistance

Towards Decolonial Choreographies of Co-Resistance

Wash Away Your Sins: Indigenous and Irish Women in Magdalene Laundries and the Poetics of Errant Histories

Listening to People with Intellectual Disability about Institutions

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