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February 21, 2026Journal of American Indian Education0 citations

What Is It Like to Be an Off-Rez Rural Indian?: Adding Complexity to Place and Education

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KJKelsey Dayle John

Key Points

  • The aim is to examine the experiences of off-rez rural Indian individuals and how these shape educational contexts.
  • Utilized Indigenous feminist methodology
  • Incorporated storytelling and poetry
  • Examined personal experiences as an off-rez rural Indian
  • Challenges the urban versus rural binary for American Indian education
  • Highlights the effects of coloniality on Indigenous relationships
  • Proposes relational education as an alternative framework for learners

Abstract

Abstract: This article uses an Indigenous feminist methodology, drawing from the practice of Indigenous storytelling, poetry, and theorizing, to trouble the binary of urban versus rural for American Indian people. The author draws on their own personal experiences as an off-rez rural Indian to think about the construction of rural or urban education and its implications for place-based education. The author proposes that coloniality works to dislocate and remove Indigenous relationships and as an alternative offers relational education for American Indian learners.

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