LEXICON
Colonization
Philosophies, practices, and systems for violent subjugation of Indigenous people.
Colonization, like trauma, is not just something that happened in the past.
Colonization, like trauma, is an ongoing experience that continues to inflict harm.
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Harm
When the negative impacts on your wellbeing are greater than your capacity to recover.
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Colonial philosophies, practices, and systems cannot be made safe for Indigenous people.
Colonization will adversely impact your wellbeing as an ILR practitioner.
First and foremost colonization impacts your nervous system.
Then colonization ripples outward to impact your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.
Leading to embodied responses that are attempts to protect one’s self from harm.
In understanding your embodied responses to colonization, you create space to change them, and to develop new ones.
Embodied responses to colonization impact your ILR practice.
In ILR, we have hundreds of speakers and learners experiencing fear, discomfort, and insecurity around language use and learning. Those aren’t choices. They are embodied responses to colonization that must be understood in order to change them.
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Embodied Response
How body, mind, and spirit react to the world based on individual and collective experience.
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