Indigenous Girls Write, Right!? Unsettling Urban Literacies with Indigenous Writing Pedagogies. (December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cisneros, Nora Alba
• Other Names: Player Grace D. guest-editor.; Ybarra Mónica González guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Urban education. Volume 57:Number 10(2022)
• Page Start: 1757
• Page End: 1783
• Publication Date: 2022-12
• Subjects: adolescent -- subjects -- college prepatory -- programs -- women and girls -- identity -- writing; Education, Urban -- Periodicals; Enseignement en milieu urbain -- Périodiques; Éducation; Milieu urbain; Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 370.91732
• DOI: 10.1177/00420859211003933
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0042-0859

Abstract

This article begins with the fundamental premise that Indigenous adolescent girls are writers. Indigenous adolescent girls speak and write in multitudes of voices, yet their physical and literary presence is often unaccounted in educational research and writing. Guided by the theoretical insights of Chicana Feminist Epistemology and Tribal Critical Race Theory this paper illuminates how Indigenous Writing Pedagogies (IWP) emerged to acknowledge land and gendered relationships in urban schools. The author presents implications for Indigenous notions of literacies and relationships that can be elevated by educators working in and out of urban school spaces.