Braiding Futures: Indigenous and Black Connections

Braiding Futures launched in May 2024 as an 8-week participatory action research project for Black and Indigenous youth. Designed by Black and Indigenous youth for Black and Indigenous youth, the group drew on our literacies and lived experiences to explore belonging and what it means for Indigenous and Black communities to be here on stolen land. 

This diagram identifies emerging themes and responses to these questions. Our research revealed that Black and Indigenous youth often feel they are not given enough opportunities to truly know each other.

Conversations about our communities are too often framed by white settler colonialism, making it difficult for us to connect in meaningful ways because our histories, interconnections, and shared struggles are under-represented and obscured.