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ONBELONGING IN THE OUTDOORS: CLAUDIA FOX TREE

  • Farrington Nature Linc 295 Cambridge Turnpike Lincoln, MA, 01773 United States (map)

Decolonizing Contributions by Indigenous People
February 22, 2003

Claudia Fox Tree

Consultant, Professional Educator, and Social Justice Activist

How do we decolonize what we have learned about Native American achievements? We add important missing information and change the dominant narrative. This presentation will help connect the dots from understanding the land to understanding Indigenous People. We will move from the past to the present in learning how Indigenous ingenuity impacted language, history, industrialization, and cultures around the world.

Claudia Fox Tree is a professional educator and social justice activist who facilitates courses and workshops on having challenging conversations about diversity, equity, and social justice. In decolonizing equity conversations, she centers Indigenous culture, resistance, and contributions, while dismantling stereotypes and historical inaccuracies in what is now known as North and South America. She asks allies and co-conspirators to come on the journey with her. Claudia A. Fox Tree (she, her) has been a middle school special education teacher for over 35 years. She earned her Master’s Degree in Education from Northeastern University and is currently a doctoral student at Lesley University. Since 2000, Claudia has been a board member on the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness. Since 1998, she has been a Massachusetts liaison for the United Confederation of Taino People.

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