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| Mythodology by Data Bear Hibernation 2023 |
For my current work we would like to introduce the term “Mythodology” to capture our ways of working and thinking. Mythodology is place based, rooted in Bear teachings – it is embodied and lived policy making by Circle Peoples.[1] We are learning as we do – but for now, here are some of the elements in the mythodology bowl
- Methodology rooted in stories – real, interpreted and created
- Rooted in respects, relationships, reciprocity – explicitly inclusionary
- Draws from and is actively engaged with Indigenous and Decolonizing methodologies
- Embedded in the communities, lands, Ancestors and Knowledge Holders that we learn with
- Collaborative, creative, constructive – we hold knowledges and build them to pass on to those to come (The Bear Bundle)
- Encourages a rooted, practical and experimental journey. It is knowing through multiple senses and means of knowing.
- Since the learning and understanding is in the journey exploration, trying things and wandering are encouraged.
- Share what you are learning and pass it on to others. We hold the stories and answers inside of us.
- Through using the voice of Data Bear we will try to articulate and reclaim parts of the historical Indigenous economic and policy stories. This approach has a number of build in key elements of Indigenous and Decolonizing methodologies.
- Based in stories told in our ways. Oral transmission of stories was our way. This included a rich ecosystem of symbolism related to all our relations.
- Decouple us from western/linear ideas of time.
- Engages thoughtfully with the knowledges of the Ancestors, Grandparents, Elders and our other teachers.
- Embeds the economic story in place – the historic now
- Turns the Indigenous gaze on colonial institutions to reclaim our economic and policy narrative (Latour – Truthiness)
- Embeds to story in the people – especially where those stories might be “missing” or overlooked. (Link to Swain Thesis)
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