ABSTRACT
Wayfinding is inclusive of all the elements of nature (Spiller et al, 2015). Wayfinding is also reliant on everyone in the va’a (waka-canoe). Wayfinders are selfless and prioritize indigenous traditions and culture that involve the sustainability of the Pacific sea of Islands. “Way finders go beyond the horizon and imagine the impossible and then, they do everything they can to make it possible” (Siope, 2018a). In this chapter we will explore the intimacies of critical autoethnography and wayfinding as a means of transformation and empowerment for a family. This chapter is written with Fetaui (narrator-autoethnographer); Jerodeen (academic analyzer-critical autoethnographer); and JoFI the poet. These writers employ critical autoethnography (CAE) and Samoan indigenous ways of passing of knowledge via storying. The Samoan Indigenous Reference (SIR) (His Highness Tui Atua, 2005) interconnects and navigates this family to decolonize and (re)claim, (re)posture the resurgence of indigenous epistemologies and ontologies.
