Building Indigenous Futures

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

Native, Documentary, Pop Culture, Society & Culture, Relationships, Indigenous, Native American, Society, Contemporary Native American Culture

5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This episode delves into higher education for Native students. While colleges and universities around the US are releasing land acknowledgements, the Indigenous students who come from these lands make up only 1% of college students nationally. We know college can be a source of power and strength for our communities, but we also know the experiences of Native students in college can be difficult and heartbreaking. If higher education in predominantly white, colonial, western institutions is potentially very dangerous for Native people: why should we still look to college as a goal for Native students?

To help us explore this question, we talk with Dr. Amanda Tachine (Diné), Assistant Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Teacher’s College, Arizona State University; Dr. Bryan Brayboy (Lumbee), President’s Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University; Carmen Lopez (Diné), Executive Director of College Horizons; and Dominick Joseph (Tulalip), a graduate student at The University of Washington.

Dr. Tachine’s book, “Native Presence and Sovereignty in College:Sustaining Indigenous Weapons to Defeat Systemic Monsters” can be found here: https://www.tcpress.com/native-presence-and-sovereignty-in-college-9780807766132

Dr. Brayboy’s most recent book, “The School-Prison Trust” can be found here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-school-prison-trust

Find out more about College Horizons at https://collegehorizons.org

And check out Dom’s podcast, “DomJoseph Podcast” at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dom-joseph-podcast/id1452117571

Huge thanks to the AMR team:

· Does All The Things- Teo Shantz

· 1st Editor- Jonathan Stein

· 2nd Editor- Darrien Camarillo

· Social Media- Lindsey Hightower

· Production Management- Will Paisley

Music for this episode was provided by Black Belt Eagle Scout.
https://www.blackbelteaglescout.com/

In this episode we focus solely on white, western institutions, but we want to acknowledge there is also an entire alternative system of Native higher education already in place we hope to explore in a future episode: Tribal Colleges and Universities! For more information on TCUs: https://sites.ed.gov/whiaiane/tribes-tcus/tribal-colleges-and-universities/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello relatives, I'm Matika Wilber, I'm from the Swin and Mish and Tulaylab tribes,
0:04.8	I'm a photographer and the founder of Project 562 and I'm also a mom, a wifey, a writer,
0:11.8	and the co-host of this fantastic podcast. And I'm Dr. Adrienne Keane, citizen of the Cherokee Nation,
0:19.0	author of the Native Appropriations Blog, scholar, writer, faculty member, anti-dog mom,
0:25.4	and co-host with Matika. We have a beautiful episode for you today, we're thinking through
0:33.8	building indigenous futures, why should Native students participate in higher education?
0:39.6	As many of the listeners know by now, or maybe not, my academic research and work as a scholar
0:45.6	is with Native students navigating the college process. I've been doing this work for over a decade,
0:50.1	working closely with indigenous students and a nonprofit called College Horizons.
0:54.6	In my journey through my research and writing, there have been several people who've been
0:58.2	foundational to my thinking, learning, and shaping of my work. As I am working to finish up my
1:03.8	book, which you have heard a lot about, your second book, my second book, the second book.
1:10.3	I am working through a lot of these ideas right now and I feel so excited to share the voices
1:16.6	of some of the mentors, thought partners, and friends who have really helped me in this process.
1:22.0	Truly, they're the folks that have most deeply shaped my thinking on the role of college and our
1:26.4	communities and our scholars that continue to be national leaders in the field of indigenous
1:30.6	higher ed. So a while back, we talked to our friends, Dr. Amanda Tachini and Dr. Brian Braboy
1:37.6	about the realities for Native students in college. Amanda is Navajo and the Assistant Professor
1:43.1	and Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University, who centers for research
1:48.2	on exploring college access and persistence among indigenous college students using qualitative
1:53.9	indigenous methodologies. She's also published her beautiful book, Native Presidents,
1:59.2	Sovereignty and College, Sustaining Indigenous Weapons to Defeat Systemic Monsters
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