Michael Marker
Educational Studies, Director of Ts'kel First Nations Studies, UBC
Musqueam territory

My work is in ethnohistory of education and explores the relational knowledge of First Peoples in the Coastal Salish region and the ways that colonizing powers have imposed ideologies and cosmologies with destructive results. My work examines the ways that the historic themes of colliding worldviews and relationships to land continue to be animated by the denial of culture and the hidden curriculum of both schooling and media. My writing examines the varieties of forms and structures which neutralize a legitimate Indigenous voice and cast the polemical cultural Other as an exoticized outside case scenario. My assertion is that healing and relationship building can only come of a rigorous unmasking of stereotypes, historical amnesia, and the North American mainstream culture of denial.

Recent works:

Indigenous Voice and Epistemic Violence: The Ethnographer's Short and Selective Attention Span. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (Forthcoming)

After the Makah Whalehunt: Culture and Ecology Up Against the Classroom Wall. Under review by Educational Researcher.