Nana Carol Turner - Dujuan’s maternal grandmother, elder, and a collaborating director of the film. She is a strong advocate for Arrernte language revitalization and against the Australian foster care system that takes Aboriginal children from their families.

Megan Hoosan - Dujuan’s mother who highlights how she loves, cares, and advocates for her son

Margaret Anderson - Dujuan’s paternal grandmother, elder, and a collaborating director of the film. She is an advocate for Arrernte community led schools and against the Australian juvenile detention system.

James Mawson - Dujuan’s Father and is also a collaborating director on the film.

Key Issues

In My Blood It Runs is an excellent tool for outreach and will be of special interest to people who want to explore the following topics:

Language Revitalization
Settler Colonialism and Schooling
Elder Knowledges/Community Knowledges
Systems of Discipline and Punishment
Land and Country Sovereignty
Aboriginal Activism and Rights
Embodied ways of knowing and being
Aborigional and Indigenous Educational Resurgence
Restorative Justice & First Nations Systems of Justice

Sources

About the author:

Pablo Montes

Pablo Montes is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin in the Cultural Studies in Education Program. He is the son of migrant workers from Guanajuato, Mexico, the ancestral territories of the Chichimeca Guamares and P'urhepecha. He currently serves as the Youth Director for the Indigenous Cultures Institute with the Coahuiltecan community in the Lands of Yana Wana (spirit waters of central Texas). Additionally, through a generous grant by the University of Texas at Austin’s Green Fund, he is working with co-author Judith Landeros and other Indigenous people to create a Land Based Education Curriculum. His interests include the intersection of queer settler colonialism, Indigeneity, and Land education.

Judith Landeros

Judith Landeros is a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin studying Cultural Studies in Education with a focus on Indigenous girlhood, traditional healing knowledge, and schooling. Her family is from Michoacán and Jalisco, the ancestral territories of the P’urhepecha and Chichimeca. She is a former bilingual early childhood teacher and advocates for the inclusion of Critical Indigenous Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Land as pedagogy within teacher preparation education programs.