Dialogic Spaces of Indigeneity in the Academy

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: Indigenous Educational Experiences in Academia: Critical Insights on Collaboration, Classroom Ecologies, and Cultural Identities

Abstract

Can indigeneity be realized in the academy? If so, how can indigenous voices represent them-selves, as Smith describes: not just one other voice among many other minority groups, but as Bakhtin (1981) labels such representation, dialogized--invested fully in a dialogic space? With Smith’s ideas of representation in mind, in which indigeneity can represent instead of being re-presented, we would like to have a conversation about how Bakhtin’s notion of what he calls dialogized heteroglossic voices, can be used to create spaces that honor and promote indigeneity in the academy. Specifically, we will discuss a course that has been taught at Northeastern State University in partnership with members of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma as a model for these spaces.

Authors

• Ryan Mackey, Cherokee Nation

• Jennifer A Morrison, Evangel University