Winoka Begay

The purpose of this trip is to push aside colonial analyses of Indigenous performance practices that has often misconstrued the real purpose behind these performances, as more than just a performance, but a ceremony and form of healing. As an Indigenous writer and researcher of decolonial practices and cultural education, I would like to utilize this opportunity to deconstruct and review a performance that claims the goal of indigenizing space and reclaiming nationhood by offering a more culturally competent understanding of what performance is, what dance is, and how such practices have long been a part of our Indigenous cultures for time immemorial.