ABSTRACT

This chapter introduces to an Indigenist anti-colonialist framework for practice, teaching and research. The building blocks for an Indigenist anti-colonialist framework involves four major visual decolonising frameworks/concepts that author have developed to form or inform research, practice and teaching/learning as analytical deconstruction and reconstruction tools for guidance and renewal. Social location within society: through the four directions; framework of extraction; maintenance methods of capitalism by cloak and dagger theory; and learning framework and wheel for practice and conflict resolution/mediation. Ultimately, it is the individuals and collectives within those communities, organisations and institutions that decide who, where, what and why a certain practice is best. The chapter aims at the self-management of the students' practice through an integration of knowledge from experience and theory. This programme was characterised by the recognition of the Cree Nation cultural identity, the population for which it was designed.