Higher Education "Pipelines" in the Time of #NoDAPL: Critiquing Colonial Frameworks for Native Students

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 10
  In Roundtable Session: Critiquing Colonial Frameworks and Indigenous Resistance

Abstract

In a higher education research field dominated by frameworks of pipelines, cultural and social capital, “giving back,” and even critiques such as community cultural wealth, it is clear that metaphors rooted in capitalism are often employed to describe experiences of students navigating the college process. For Indigenous students, these metaphors have close ties with colonization. Using data from a multi-year research project with College Horizons, a college access non-profit for Native students, this paper argues for new frameworks and metaphors rooted in Indigenous understandings.

Author

• Adrienne Keene, Brown University