A Mixed Methods Autoethnographic Theater: Extending Pedagogy and Research Through the Development of a Sámi Land Acknowledgment

Drawing forward stories are ways to address sensitive topics and become willing to be vulnerable to share withothers. Methodologically being able to critically self-reflect and find those transformative stories offers a meansto recognize our humanness in a global world (CohenMiller, 2024). As Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis (2016)emphasize, in evocative autoethnography, there is a need to pull in the reader to the moment, to dramatize ourwork. In this article, the three of us incorporate the novel mixed methods autoethnography, weaving togetherevocative approaches and dramaturgy (Saldańa, 2003) around the topic of developing a Sámi landacknowledgment in a higher education context. We recognize the ways in which arts-based research (Leavy,2020), including autoethnography, can stand on its own. And echoing Tony Onwuegbuzie's (2023) poetic inquiryof mixed methods research, in 1+1=1, we offer the article as a standalone piece, a theatric work of seven actsintegrating the 10 dimensions of mixed methods autoethnography (Onwuegbuzie et al., 2024).