Thunder in my Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks

This episode is focused on Patricia Monture-Angus' book: Thunder in My Soul, A Mohawk Woman Speaks. 

In Thunder in My Soul, A Mohawk Woman Speaks, Monture-Angus shares deeply personal experiences as a woman, law student and professor living in colonial Canada. She states: "This is a prayer for my people, and for all First Nations. It is shared with you in the spirit of gift giving. It is in part, a reflection on my own struggle to shed the colonized shackles which bind my mind, my spirit, and my heart." 

Questions to Consider:

1. What kind of knowledge production can happen when we stop centering white/Western perspectives? How can teachers encourage students to create based on their own lived experiences? 

2. What critical theories does the academy lack? How can teachers encourage students to create those theories?

3. Why is it important for white people to learn about the ways that people of color, specifically women of color, labor to make themselves legible to white people? What work can white people to do honor this labor? 

4. How can we teach our students about race and racism without causing trauma? 

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