SESSION B:

Seeing History

Artifacts

Artifacts are objects crafted and used for a particular purpose. Artifacts are not neutral and tell and celebrate specific narratives1.

1 Source: Oxford Languages
Reflection questions:
  • How do artifacts and narratives create safety for some, and a threat for others?
  • Who created the artifacts in Mat-Su communities, and why?

Settler Colonialism

Settler colonialism is a form of colonialism that seeks to replace the original population of a colonized land with a new society of settlers2.

2 Source: Learning for Justice Magazine
Play Video
"Our story is just kind of waves of epidemics, and fur trade and extractive resources and miners.”
Lisa Wade on Colony

Pattern

A pattern is something from which a copy is made; a way something is done, organized or happens, often in a repeating series3.

3 Source: Cambridge English Dictionary

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“Our story is just kind of waves of epidemics, and fur trade and extractive resources and miners.”
Angie Wade on Pattern

Resistance

Resistance is the act of fighting against something that is attacking you or refusing to accept something.

3 Source: Cambridge English Dictionary

Play Video
"I saw that when I was a teen... The first king that was caught in the spring or early summer was cut up, passed around to the family..."
George Nicholai on Resistance
Reflection Questions:
  • Which patterns of resistance stand out to you
  • Which patterns of racism stand out to you?
  • How do you see these patterns operating today?
  • Which values underlie and support the patterns?
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