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It suggests that the distress, educational struggles, changes in traditional educational pathways, and other behaviors of current youth in response to social challenges offer ways out of these crises rather than being symptoms of them. This work offers pathways to learn from the wisdom of distress, and ways to create healing futures for ourselves, the land, waters, ancestors, and All Our Relations.  \nHow I Came To Be Here: Introductions  \nTo Me and All My Relations 2  \nAanii. Tansi. Boozhoo kina wiya. Ramona Elke ndi-zhnikaas. Saskatchewan, Canada ndoo-njibaa. Mission, British Columbia, Canada ndi-daa. Anishinaabe/Métis-kwe endaaw. Enknoomagenh ndaaw. Hello, everyone! I am from Saskatchewan, Canada. I currently live in Mission, British Columbia, Canada, as a grateful, uninvited guest on the unceded ancestral lands and waters of the Sto:lo peoples. I am Anishinaabe/Métis on my late mother’s side and Celtic/Germanic on my father’s side. I have been a highschool teacher for over 22 years in a rural high school in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, where I teach both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. I am a PhD student in Arts Education at Simon Fraser University, focusing my inquiry on how to create spaces of honoring for all beings. I am a poet, a grandmother, a painter, beader, drummer, and singer. Each of these pieces of me has influenced how I walk in the world as a student, as a teacher, mother, grandmother, partner, and relation. It is important that, as an Indigenous scholar/searcher, I introduce myself, as I have been taught, through the scholarship of such folx 3 as Absolon & Willet (2005), Archibald (2008), Kovach (2021), and Wilson (2008), to connect myself, relationally, to people and place and spirit. Through this introduction, I situate myself in relation and reciprocity, creating connection between you, me, and all beings and Ancestors around us who bring us teachings and prepare us to walk together in this learning journey/conversation.  \nMy work calls me into spaces through vision, ceremony, making, listening, and witnessing to teach me how to be most useful to children and youth and All My Relations. I have learned, over the many years of trial and error, that the answers to our worries are not to be found in the same, colonial ways of viewing wellness; rather, they are to be found in the dis-ease manifest in the behavior of the youth. The distress many children and youth exhibit are not the issue. They are pointing us in the direction of the solutions, and we ignore them at our peril. Through Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and doing, and arts-based  \neducation/making practices, we have an opportunity to listen to the teachings4 of the youth and to collaborate with them to create meaningful change for ourselves, our ancestors past and future, the planet, and All Our Relations.  \nTo the Work  \nThrough this discussion, I invite you into wondering: What if our definitions of wellness/disease and systems (educational systems, mental health/wellness systems, economic systems) are insufficient for the youth and, through their non-completion of outdated educational pathways, their non-compliance in a soul-crushing workforce, and refusal to buy into the old mythology of home/land ownership, they are showing us the way out of the crises we are currently trying to survive, rather than being distressed within them? What if their distress is not about the demand to live in the old systems but an invitation for us to step outside of worn-out systems, into inclusive, spirit-forward futures where all beings are honored as they are (particularly Indigenous youth, Black youth, youth of color, and LGBTQIA2S+ youth)? I would suggest, after over two decades of walking with challenging 5 youth in all these communities, the youth are opting o","cbCaivuFUhAIajdq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivuFUhAIajdq","pdf",394194,16,"English","# Abstract\n## How I Came To Be Here: Introductions\n## To Me and All My Relations\n## To the Work\n## Strand #1 - Learning the Hard Way: Teacher as Student","[{\"question\":\"What method does the work use to explore youth distress and wellbeing?\",\"answer\":\"It uses Indigenous Métissage to weave together poems, stories, scholarship, and images, drawing ethical relationality into arts-based and inquiry practices.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the work interpret youth distress and educational struggles?\",\"answer\":\"Youth distress is not treated as the problem; it is described as pointing toward solutions and inviting communities to step outside worn-out systems.\"},{\"question\":\"What strands does the author weave to discuss the possibility of healing futures?\",\"answer\":\"The work weaves three strands: the author’s story as a teacher, her experience as a mother, and her identity as a poet/artist who finds medicine through making and art.\"}]","The Kids Are Alright - Changing Perceptions for a New Wellbeing | PDF",1792037814,25]