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This collage-narrative generates relationships among complex issues of intercultural engagements in several contexts: boarding school era, Catlin’s ethno-tourism art, usufructuary rights guaranteed through treaties, resistance performance demonstrated on Lake Bemidji, and the multitudinous influences of Christianity. Themes of deculturalization, assimilation, essentilization, eradication, and survivance. Each signification is a metonym that suggests partial access as a means of “coming to know.”

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This mapping visualization is based on cultural immersion among northern Minnesota Ojibwe over a 3 week course. Processing my positionality in places where I was a visitor in their country. The medicine wheel is purposely dis-oriented per its significance to the Ojibwe. These colors are orientations and became a means for me to locate my emergent understandings and embodied experiences. There are text excerpts from my field journal that inform what is seen and not seen. The file is very large so this version is a bit blurry, but you can see the affordances and limitations of the approach to a mapping visualization.