Kiskisom

Abstract

As an urban Indigenous academic, I struggle to comprehend and work within the schism between Indigenous and Western ways of knowing and being.  Kiskisom, a Cree verb meaning 'to remind [someone],' argues that the cultivation of a plastic brain provides a unique opportunity for Indigenous sovereignty through the decolonizing action of reading Indigenous stories. The understanding that we have the power to rewire the brain through the mindful engagement of colonial ontology, or neurodecolonization, is a unique opportunity for change.