Engaging Indigenist Inquiry in the Academy: Relationships and Responsibilities

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

This working group roundtable brings together scholars from the University of Alaska National Science Foundation-funded EPSCoR ‘Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research’ project, the University of Alaska Anchorage Alaska Native Studies Program, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Indigenous Teacher Corps. Roundtable participants will discuss a range of successes and challenges in engaging Indigenous Knowledges (IKs) in pedagogy and research, values and practices that may need to be ‘unlearned’ to responsibly engage IKs, and how authentic co-production of knowledge might inform teaching and learning initiatives.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Chair

• Olga Skinner, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Papers

• Educational Responsibility in Alaskan Indigenous Futures - Olga Skinner, University of Alaska Fairbanks

• Learning to Walk on Others' Lands - Megan C McGinty, The University of Alaska - Fairbanks

• Activism and Indigenous Education - Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams, The University of Alaska - Anchorage

• Decolonizing Approaches to Engaging Indigenous Knowledges in the Academy - Beth Leonard, Alaska Pacific University