ABSTRACT
Healing from experiences of colonial exclusion is often positioned as the prerogative of the intellect. This chapter opens up the experiences of former Aboriginal Studies 30 students learning from the generative energy that flows from holistic-guided sacred ecological philosophies. These philosophies and teachings support healing from enlightenment and colonial logics that continue to acerbate systemic racialization, exclusion, loss of identity, and the concealment of embodied knowledges. These insights will be represented through the métissage political praxis and research sensibility. Métissage seeks to highlight difference and the creative potential that is made possible through the simultaneous presence of differences and similarities. Former Aboriginal Studies 30 students explain how connecting with the life-giving energy that flows from sacred ecology encourages healing and restoring life to its original difficulty through recovering relationship with self, others, and our more-than-human relational networks.
