What Do You Really Know About Native People?
As an Indigenous person and a journalist, I am always concerned with articles or news stories, either in mainstream newspapers or electronic media, that directly involve Indigenous people. What is true about Indigenous people and what is simply not? What do you really know about the Native people that many…
The Rhetorical Colonization of Ancestral Puebloan Heritage Places
There are conscientious individuals who seek to decolonize the management of Indigenous heritage places in the United States. These activists, scholars, and professionals already have changed key practices within cultural resource management. For example, the National Park Service (NPS) now consults representatives of affiliated tribes, nations, and pueblos in some…
Ogimaakwe: Reframing Structures of Dominance in Higher Education
After weeks of research, the Indigenous Research team had developed an interview protocol, passed internal ethics review, and planned to contact five women in leadership on five Manitoba reservations to understand Indigenous concepts of matriarchal leadership long ignored or misunderstood by colonial researchers. Each member of the team had contacts…