I read the steps outlined by Mark Aquash in regards to decolonization and the process. Aquash outlines 4 steps, rediscovery and recovery, closure, visioning, commitment, and action.
Rediscovery and recovery involve language, identity, and culture. The rediscovery and recovery phase can lead to increased interest and inspire further research into these areas.
Closure involves not allowing the anger towards colonization to be a constant stopping block. Instead of sitting in the grief, Aquash says it must be confronted and used as a source of empowerment to continue the decolonization process.
Visioning is the phase where new ideas can be considered as to how to change the current societal structures. The systems that must be revisited are the “political, social, economic, judicial, administrative, and educational”. This is when the colonial structures are ideally going to be changed to decolonized systems.
Commitment involves the Indigenous communities uniting and sharing a single voice as they commit to the decolonization process. Finally, action is working on making changes and bringing forward the decolonized structures that were thought of during visioning.
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