Multimodal Language Rights and Indigenous Totemic Identity: Cross-Cultural Participatory Research

Indigenous language rights and identity practices are marginalised in education, bringing a need for mainstream educators to understand respect ways of knowing, being, sharing knowledge. Engaging elementary students (ages 4.5 12 years), the cross-cultural participatory research was conducted three years that were multimodal, including digital storytelling, singing, e-book making, dance video making. The school community gave central place totemic traditions their multimodal use. To views lifeworlds through non-linear view time, Bakhtin’s chronotope is used illuminate time-space students’ texts. findings significant because failure engage with knowledge contributes production maintenance inequity. counters hegemonic effects silencing communities, demonstrating how culture literacies can be taught hand-in-hand 21st century.