Partnership Through Story: Promising Practices for Meaningful Collaboration

• In Event: Parenthood, Partnerships, and Promise in Indigenous Higher Education

Abstract

There are conflicting ideas about how to develop effective research partnerships between Tribal Colleges and research institutions. Traditional research partnerships developed between research institutions, Tribal Colleges, grassroots organizations, and Indigenous community members have historically privileged research institutions while devaluing the contributions of the others (Smith, 2012). Moreover, research partnerships across Indian Country tend to be extractive (Wilson, 2008). In response to these realities, authors formed a partnership to address these imbalances while advancing the role of Indigenous knowledge within traditional education paradigms with the goal of bridging understanding related to Indigenous knowledge and worldviews with the goal of developing a partnership across a state land grant institution and a Tribal college.

Authors

• Hollie Mackey, North Dakota State University

• Danny Luecke, North Dakota State University

• Julie Robinson, University of North Dakota

• Emily Biggane, United Tribes Technical College

• Raynelle Rino, Rino Consulting Solutions