Cuentos del Sur: Building Relationships of Solidarity with Indigenous Women on Turtle Island

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a community arts program whose goal was to open up spaces for conversations within the Latinx community in Toronto regarding identity, Indigeneity and migration. We also explore how the program began building relationships of solidarity with Indigenous women in Canada, and the complicated relationship between immigration and settlement in the settler-colonial state. In particular, the program sought to begin a conversation around our roles as immigrants on indigenous land, and how our own migration stories and ties to Indigeneity figured in those roles.