This session is well suited for a broad audience; anyone interested in Indigenous studies, language reclamation, history, geography, anthropology, or place-based pedagogy will benefit, while more advanced participants will also find a strong theoretical and methodological intervention. Participants will learn how Coahuiltecan toponyms can be read as archives of memory and kinship, and how naming practices can support decolonial approaches to reclamation. The session also develops skills in thinking across archival evidence, community knowledge, and more-than-human relations rather than treating land and language as separate objects of study. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of Coahuiltecan land-language-kinship and with new ways to think about sovereignty, memory, and place as lived relational practice.
