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Item DAC Blog 2020-10(2020-10) Ramirez, Andres; Covington, ElleItem Decolonial Water Stories: Intergenerational Pedagogies at an Indigenous Summer Camp in Austin, Texas.(Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education, 2019-10-31) Nxumalo, Fikile; Odim, Nnenna; Montes, PabloThis paper is situated within a growing body of work in early childhood studies that suggests the need to firmly situate early childhood education within current ecological challenges and their unevenly inherited impacts. Through a participatory ethnography of an Indigenous summer program led by Indigenous elders, we engage with the question of how early childhood pedagogical practices might move away from dominant romanticized and developmental approaches to learning about the natural world. Attuning to transdisciplinary decolonial perspectives, we work with stories, Indigenous knowledges, and everyday pedagogical encounters to make visible possibilities for situated decolonial pedagogical engagements with more-thanhuman worlds.Item Identity-Based Revitalization in the Maya Communities of Guatemala: A Focus on Dress and Language(2020-05) McChesney, HannahThe Maya people have lived in Central America since as early as 250 A.D. and speak 22 officially recognized languages, inhabiting what is now present-day Guatemala. These communities have for centuries been the target of subversive socioeconomic and political policies imposed by Spanish colonizers, then later the national government, and most recently were the victims of a State-led genocide in the early 1980s. However, these communities have continued to fight for the recognition of their rights and the freedom to peacefully express their culture through traditional practices of dress, language, religion, and other customs that vary geographically and between distinct ethnic groups. This work focuses primarily on revitalization efforts in dress and language since the mid-twentieth century that have sought to reverse cultural repression tactics implemented by the State and overturn social prejudices. The research is based on information from historical studies, primary sources, and a cultural anthropological study done with Maya people in Guatemala. Detailed in this work is the essence of the Maya cultural identity, the history of its suppression, and the three fronts on which the revitalization movement has been based: political mobilization, works of the Pan-Maya Movement and Maya scholars, and community-based efforts centered around education.Item An Ode to Indigenous Art: Bidding Farewell to Blanton’s Latest Exhibit(ORANGE Magazine, 2019-10-01) Sebri, ImaniItem The Relaciones Geográficas Map of Misquiahuala: Interpretation and Contextualization(2020-05-11) Caswell, Elois; Guernsey, JuliaThis study situates the Relaciones Geográficas map of Misquiahuala (RGM) in its historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts. The RGM was painted by an indigenous artist in 1579 on a deerskin hide and is the product of Philip II of Spain’s attempt to survey New Spain. The map invites considerations of the impact that differing cultures had on the pictorial qualities of artistic production at this time. My study aims to explore the RGM’s contextual history, develop interpretations of its composition, imagery, and symbolism, and situate it within the broader social context of 16th century New Spain. The map of Misquiahuala, located in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, is an eloquent example of artistic production that exemplifies stylistic hybridity. It embodies the cultural convergence of the Spanish and indigenous Mesoamericans, and provides the opportunity to engage with questions of authorship, the visible tension of cross-cultural dialogues, artistic exchange, and hybridization.Item Táyshas and Enemies: The Caddo and the Atlantic World, 800-1859(2023-05) Ross, BrianIn 1542, the first Europeans entered the territory of the Caddo, the indigenous peoples of northeastern Texas and adjacent areas. Over the next few centuries, the Caddo would be drawn into new economic, social, and cultural connections with both European and indigenous newcomers, connecting them to the growing “Atlantic world”. At the same time as they were drawn into the Atlantic world, the Caddo maintained much older and deeper connections with indigenous communities surrounding them. Despite the dramatic changes European colonialism brought to their homeland, the Caddo retained sovereignty, continuing to govern themselves and their lands. This paper seeks to explore how the Caddo were connected to the world around them, both before and after colonization, and to determine how the Caddo responded to and navigated the changes brought by the European invasion. To do so, I examine a variety of historical sources, including written European sources, modern-day archaeological data, and Caddo oral history, all of which document the era through different lenses and offer insight into Caddo connections and changes across time.Item Transformative Listening: Making Lived Experiences Visible from Praxis: A Writing Center Vol.19 No.1(Praxis, 2022) Stark, Rachel; Essmiller, Kennedy