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These conversations, as part of my doctoral research, are envisioning an educational future outside of colonial-controlled schooling, an educational future grounded in Indigenous knowledges. In recognition that education has been occurring here, very successfully, for tens of thousands of years, community members share their vision for Indigenous futurities, looking at the patterns of the past to prepare for the future. Envisioning education sovereignty creates time and space to think deeply about the future, and to embrace ancient educational practices that our ancestors would recognise. These conversations do not subscribe to Western notions of “ progress”, nor start from a premise that colonial rule is ever-lasting. This research contends with Indigenous education sovereignty for our grandchildren’s grandchildren. Some findings from this research are shared here, in the form of a story, as a decolonial approach to centre Indigenous knowledges and methodologies. This story—“Our Education, Our Way”—presents a vision for what education could look and feel like, and has implications for the way formal education currently functions.  \nKeywords: Indigenous futurities, decolonial approach, storying, Indigenous education sovereignty, envisioning, anonymity  \nIntroduction  \nClose your eyes. Feel your ribs rise as you take a big breath. What does the future look like for our young ones? For those in the deep future yet to join us?  \nThis article presents research findings from D’harawal Country in south-west Sydney (see also Bishop, 2021; 2022; 2023) where Indigenous community members were asked: What could education look and feel like, grounded in Indigenous knowledges? Currently, in so-called Australia, the future looks bleak for many Indigenous students without significant and systemic change to the way education operates. Schools are known to be sites of harm for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students (Moodie et al., 2019; Shay & Lampert, 2020), and yet Indigenous peoples have been practising education here for tens of thousands of years, very successfully. In applying Indigenous, decolonising, and relational theories and methodologies to the dissemination of findings, this paper uses story to re-present (in part1) a vision of Indigenous education sovereignty.  \n1 Findings are also re-presented through a series of intergenerational letters, spanning through time between ancestors and young people, grandmothers and granddaughters. The letters contain quotes from participants who wished to be named as part of layering the community vision, to be discussed below (Bishop, 2024) .  \nThis paper will start by positioning myself and the research before discussing my methodological approach, which includes Indigenous futurities2 and envisioning. I will then move into how this research prioritises relationality to “layer the vision” shared by community, including decisions made to prioritise and protect participant anonymity. Finally, I look to Indigenous scholarship on “story” as a way to represent “findings”3 before finishing with a story of Indigenous futurities—“Our Education, Our Way”.  \nWho am I?  \n“As Indigenous researchers, we speak from somewhere, notably from relations with the natural world, our ancestors and other Indigenous peoples. We speak out of histories of colonization and genocide, survival and struggle”(Coburn et al., 2013, p. 5) .  \nMy name is Michelle and I am a Gamilaroi woman, grown up on D’harawal Country in so-called Australia, a term often used by Indigenous scholars to point out the illegal occupation of the settlercolonial stat","cbCail80Ks7jdZEW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCail80Ks7jdZEW","pdf",313583,17,"English","# Introduction\n# Who am I?\n## Indigenous positioning and language choices\n## Disrupting academic conventions\n# Story-based findings\n## Intergenerational letters\n## Layering the community vision","[{\"question\":\"What question guides the research about Indigenous education?\",\"answer\":\"Community members were asked what education could look and feel like when grounded in Indigenous knowledges.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper present its findings?\",\"answer\":\"Some findings are shared as a decolonial story, “Our Education, Our Way,” and are also re-presented through a series of intergenerational letters.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author disrupt standard academic article structure?\",\"answer\":\"The disruptions align with Indigenous, decolonial, and relational theories and methodologies and support giving the community the final word through the story.\"}]","Envisioning Indigenous education sovereignty through story - Our Education, Our Way | PDF",1792078712,43]