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Episode 106: “Indigenous Education and the Power of Stories” with Leilani Sabzalian, PhD

In this episode, Ricky and Leilani Sabzalian, PhD talk about her work teaching and cultivating learning environments that are respectful and have a sense of responsibility to Indigenous Peoples. They also talk about the power of intergenerational storytelling as well as “survivance” — a term which combines “survival” and “resistance” and encapsulates spiritual resistance and Indigenous Peoples’ active sense of presence in spite of colonialism and other Eurocentric systems.