Professors Michael Ing and Alexus McLeod hosted a workshop featuring Indigenous scholars who shared accounts of the world’s creation from Indigenous communities in North America and the Pacific. Creation stories often serve as life-organizing narratives. Well-known narratives include those provided by Abrahamic religious traditions, Asian cultures, and more recently developed discourses of science. Yet peoples indigenous to the American continents as well as those of Oceania have lived on and experienced half of the planet for thousands of years. The workshop discussed the value of these creation stories in the shared project of exploring what it means to be human.
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