Vkerricetv: Maskoke refusal archives

Abstract

What does it mean to be called into remembering Indigenous language? What are the possibilities for refusal memory through self-determined archival projects? Drawing on narrative vignettes of one author’s experiences across archival projects, this article considers the tensions and possibilities surfaced in language archival processes. While occupying colonial states’ archives attempt to capture and contain people deliberately decontextualized from language, refusal language projects remember and practice language across generational life.