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Episode 81: Decolonizing Practices — with Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee
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Ta7tal铆ya Nahanee joins Am Johal to discuss her work in creating social change through decolonial facilitation, rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing and chenchenstway, the law of lifting each other up.
Ta7tal铆ya shares her journey of founding Decolonizing Practices, developing S铆nulhkay and Ladders, and how she engages people in conversations about redress, land equity, privilege, and resisting the comfort of complacency in neocolonial systems. She also speaks to Indigenous language resurgence, decolonizing identity, and the idea that decolonization is an ongoing and personal process of self-actualization.
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Ta7tal铆ya Michelle Nahanee
Ta7tal铆ya Michelle Nahanee, S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh, is a decolonial facilitator & strategist catalyzing social change to transform colonial narratives & impacts.
She works within the intersection of class, culture and creativity focusing on social change through communications and engagement. Ta7tal铆ya鈥檚 collaborations have influenced opinions, changed behaviours and mobilized community action. She is the designer of a life-size board game called S铆nulhkay and Ladders which she uses in her workshop Decolonizing Practices. Her approach earned her the 2019 City of Vancouver Award of Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion. Ta7tal铆ya is also a 2020 Dialogue Associate with the 麻豆视频 Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. She is the author and designer of a decolonizing workbook called Decolonize First, a liberating guide and workbook for peeling back the layers of neocolonialism. Ta7tal铆ya also recently co-founded a Squamish-led non-profit called M虛i tel'nexw Leadership Society to work with organizations and individuals who want to activate decolonizing practices, indigenization and commitments to reconciliation led by Squamish ways of seeing, knowing & being.
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