Unlearning by Learning to Dry Fish Land-Based Pedagogy that Decolonizes

This research paper delves into how settler colonialism is an ongoing structure of domination in Canada, and how it is being resisted. This includes an exploration of both settler and Indigenous identities as well as a discussion of differences in ontological and epistemological perspectives. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which settler colonialism is contested in learning/knowing spaces. This is achieved by asking how settler colonialism is challenged through land-based learning practices at Dechinta Bush University, a university accredited learning space in the Northwest Territories, Canada. This research found that four dominant binaries in particular are challenged at Dechinta: human and nature; universal and local knowledge; the mind and the body; and Indigenous and settler people.