Yours, but Not Yours: Indigenous Reflections on Identity, Space, and Living on Land that is NotYour Own

Anne Walker is a mixed-blood, white (Dutch-Irish) and Cherokee theologian from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who writes, teaches, and leads from her vantage point as a person who inhabits the space of both colonizer and colonized. In this session, Anne will explore what it means to descend from a lineage of people for whom place is an essential element of being, forced to inhabit spaces that are not one’s own. Anne will share Indigenous feminist practices of “home-making” that serve to establish a sense of place amidst displacement. These are decolonial practices that can be engaged across cultural groups, toward the building decolonial consciousness and practice.

Anne Carter Walker (Cherokee Nation) is Interim Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs and Director of Theological Field Education at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, OK. Anne’s twenty-five year career includes administration of theological programs for the exploration of vocation with high school youth and young adults, theological education administration, and nonprofit management. Anne holds a Ph.D. in practical theology, an M.A. in religious education, and an M.A. in ethics, all from Claremont School of Theology. She is the co-author of Nurturing Different Dreams: Youth Ministry Across Lines of Difference (Pickwick, 2014). Read Anne’s blog at contingentchickblog.org.

We will gather in Room 1 and on Zoom.