Invaders, Tourists, or Visitors? Reading Indigenous Stories in a German University Context

In this article, we ask how to engage with Indigenous stories non-extractively from our own positioning as German scholars within the German university system. Taking guidance from the methodological work of Stó:lō and St’at’imc scholar and storyteller Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem and Wiradjuri author, critic, and academic Jeanine Leane, we engage with representations of German settler figures in Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wild and Ellen van Neerven’s Sate in order to think through the implications of reading as an invader, tourist, or visitor (Leane).