The Act of Claiming Higher Education as Indigenous Space: American Indian/Alaska Native Examples

Windchief, Sweeney; Joseph, Darold H.

doi:10.1080/15595692.2015.1048853

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“…He argues that culture is an "emergent and expressive" arena (p. 175) where people live within rather than between worlds, and that people can agentively construct their position within this arena by claiming "ownership and capacity to expand culturally into different [but simultaneous] domains" (p. 175). Within this powered landscape, such acts of "claiming" have been identified as key to expanding Native selfdetermination [28]. Below we explore how these processes are played out in the identities, experiences, and perspectives of Native STEM professionals we interviewed in this study.…”

Section: The Power Of Agentive Identity Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Development of critical consciousness and the re-centering of cultural knowledge and values are necessary components of this type of decolonization process. Windchief and Joseph [28] discuss the ways in which this is occurring as Native Americans claim higher education as indigenous space. They argue that Native students can "achieve success while maintaining cultural integrity by claiming educational space as their own" (p. 267) and that "utilizing something that has originated in another cultural context is not something new within the [Native American] collective experience" (p. 268).…”

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“…In his piece on the "Insurrection of Subjugated Futures, " Saranillio [14] addresses this challenge, calling for destruction of "colonial categories that limit our worlds of possibility" (p. 638) or what Levi and Maybury-Lewis [23], describe as "liberating the term 'Indigenous' from its previous colonial entanglements" (p. 33). Windchief and Joseph [28] identify "claiming education, its tools, and the spaces associated with it [as providing] the essential skill set that Indigenous communities can use in augmenting notions of tribal sovereignty, quality community life, and Indigenous community educational persistence" (p. 274). The interviewees in our research are doing just that in the arena of STEM and STEM careers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Windchief and Joseph [28] write about how important it is for Native Americans to claim nontraditional terrain as indigenous space. Through their pursuits as STEM professionals, interviewees in our study are staking their claim.…”

Section: It Is a Part Of Me…i Don't Have To Deal With The Burden Of Qmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Broadening Conceptualization of Native Identity as Foundational for Success among Native Americans in STEM

Reeves¹,

Marin²,

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This study explores success among Native Americans in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and careers. We investigate how identities are negotiated as individuals navigate educational, professional, and community landscapes, as well as the historical legacy of the detrimental way that Western science has positioned Native culture. We conducted interviews with Native STEM professionals and we found that a common factor in their experience is the strength of their self-identity as Native people. Contradicting both mainstream beliefs that STEM expertise requires a Western sensibility and common attitudes in Native communities that pursuing a career in STEM is antithetical to Native cultural affiliation, it is the depth of their Native identity that gives interviewees a platform for success in science.

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Section: The Power Of Agentive Identity Constructionmentioning

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Section: Think It Does Influence Me It Influences What I Want To Rmentioning

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“…5. Develop different programs to strengthen an Indigenous identity of the self and also of the community (Windchief & Joseph, 2015). 6.…”

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Critical Listening and Storying: Fostering Respect for Difference and Action Within and Beyond a Native American Literature Classroom

2016

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Relying on the intersections of Indigenous Research Methodologies andHumanizing Research, the authors of this article argue that by re-centering relationships through critical listening and storying, we are better suited to co-construct our shared truths and realities in the space between the telling and hearing of stories. As we do so, we move beyond the sometimes dehumanizing "slash" of researcher/participant and professor/student and into more fertile spaces where our collective desires for educational, political, and social change are forged because of our commitment to sustaining meaningful relationships as well as our refusal to ignore our impact on each other.

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Linking Sovereignty, Local Environments, and Climate Justice Through Pipeline Pedagogy

Gordon

Grosse

Mark

2021

Pipeline Pedagogy: Teaching About Energy and Environmental Justice Contestations

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The Act of Claiming Higher Education as Indigenous Space: American Indian/Alaska Native Examples

Cited by 22 publications

References 25 publications

Broadening Conceptualization of Native Identity as Foundational for Success among Native Americans in STEM

Broadening Conceptualization of Native Identity as Foundational for Success among Native Americans in STEM

Critical Listening and Storying: Fostering Respect for Difference and Action Within and Beyond a Native American Literature Classroom

Linking Sovereignty, Local Environments, and Climate Justice Through Pipeline Pedagogy

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