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Upcoming: Join us for the next session in our Trust in Practice webinar series, Stories That Shape Communities: Storytelling as a Trust-Building Practice.
Across communities, storytelling is emerging as a powerful way to preserve cultural heritage, strengthen community identity, and foster authentic relationships. Whether through oral history projects, programming, or community-led narratives, organizations are using storytelling not only as a focus of their work but also as a strategy for engaging residents, amplifying local voices, and creating spaces for connection and belonging. Community leaders, practitioners, and storytellers will explore how shared narratives help build, repair, and sustain trust across communities and sectors.
When: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 | 2:00–3:00 PM ET
Featured Speakers:
Claire Maracle, Executive Director, Words of the People
Amy Saidman, Founder & Artistic Executive Director, Story District
Jeremy D Williams Ed.D., Co-Founder, Freedom Dreams Foundation
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Previous Engagements: Seeding Solidarity Rematriation Tour’s national kickoff event in Chicago! Our panel dove into solidarity building and explored what rematriation looks like today, and what it can look like in the future ✨ Where should we take the Rematriation Tour next?!
A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible: Equity And Transformation and Haymarket Books, along with our passionate and accomplished panelists Kyle Mays, Ph.D., 𐓐𐓶𐓟𐓰𐓫’ Chelsea Hicks, Claire Maracle, and Alonzo Waheed.
https://www.kinfolktech.org/event/the-peoples-archive-we-the-people
This is a conversation on rematriation with Brea Baker, Chelsea T. Hicks (Xuedoin), Elisa Harkins and Claire Maracle you don’t want to miss! Hosted by Kalup Linzy at Queen Rose Art House. Topics include rematriation as an empowering force and practice that strengthens acts of repair.
About The Authors Brea Baker is a writer and activist whose book, ROOTED: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, details her family’s experiences across the South and makes another case for reparations to include land distribution. ROOTED has been celebrated in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Apple Books, the New York Times, iHeart Radio’s The Breakfast Club, Harper’s BAZAAR, Ms. Magazine, and was honored as a BCALA 2024 Nonfiction Honor award winner. With a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, Brea believes deeply in political imagination and the need for nuanced storytelling that doubles as ancestral veneration.
𐓐𐓶𐓟𐓰𐓫͘ “Xuedoin” is Chelsea T. Hicks, an Osage interdisciplinary storyteller and the founding artist of Words of the People, an Indigenous nonprofit envisioning a future where Indigenous languages thrive. Currently a PhD student at the University of Oklahoma, Chelsea / Xuedoin is researching modes of creating contemporary Indigenous language creative expressions via poetry and art. Her work engages interdisciplinary social art practice and insurgent community engagement through practices of rematriation. Her first book 𐓩𐓘͘𐓲𐓟 𐓷𐓘𐓮𐓬𐓟 ‘A Calm & Normal Heart’ won the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation and her novel 𐓣𐓤𐓪 is a story of ancestral rematriation forthcoming at OU Press.
Elisa Harkins is a Cherokee and Muscogee (Creek) artist and composer. Her work brings together Indigenous language, song, and electronic music. She creates contemporary music in the Cherokee and Muscogee languages and also works to carry forward traditional songs and hymns. Her practice spans performance, sound, and visual art, often exploring relationships to land, sovereignty, and cultural continuity. Her work has been presented at places including MoMA, the MCA Chicago, and The Getty. She is the creator of Radio III and Wampum, performances that bring together music, movement, and Indigenous futurism. Her practice imagines futures in which Black and Indigenous liberation are woven together like a two-row wampum belt, a symbol of respect and trust.
Claire Maracle is a Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, raised as a guest on Muscogee, Osage, and Cherokee land. This experience directly informs their work in rematriation and their conviction that language is the key to transcending displacement. They co-founded Poetic Justice, bringing literacy and poetry workshops to carceral settings, that provided a framework for education as liberation. Their poetry has appeared in This Land Press, Anti Heroin Chic, Emerge Magazine, New Words Press, Wayfarer Magazine and elsewhere.
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