Indigenizing the academy : transforming scholarship and empowering communities

Mihesuah, Devon A. (Devon Abbott), 1957- (Added Author). Wilson, Angela Cavender. (Added Author).

Summary: Native American scholars reflect on issues related to academic study by students drawn from the indigenous peoples of America. Topics range from problems of racism and ethnic fraud in academic hiring to how indigenous values and perspectives can be integrated into research methodologies and interpretive theories.

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ISBN: 0803232292 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0803282923 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780803232297 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780803282926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xi, 245 pages ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004]
Copyright: ©2004

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Preface / Devon Abbott Mihesuah -- Introduction / Devon Abbott Mihesuah and Angela Cavender Wilson -- 1. Marginal and Submarginal / Vine Deloria, Jr. 2. Acamedic Gatekeepers / Devon Abbott Mihesuah -- 3. Corrupt State University: The Organizational Psychology of Native Experience in Higher Education / Keith James -- 4. Reclaiming Our Humanity: Decolonization and the Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge / Angela Cavender Wilson -- 5. Warrior Scholarship: Seeing the University as a Ground of Contention / Taiaiake Alfred -- 6. Seeing (and Reading) Red: Indian Outlaws in the Ivory Tower / Daniel Heath Justice -- 7. Keeping Culture in Mind: Transforming Academic Training in Professional Psychology for Indian Country / Joseph P. Gone -- 8. Should American Indian History Remain a Field of Study? / Devon Abbott Mihesuah -- 9. Teaching Indigenous Cultural Resource Management / Andrea A. Hunter -- 10. In the Trenches: A Critical Look at the Isolation of American Indian Political Practices in the Nonempirical Social Science of Political Science / Joely De La Torre -- 11. Graduating Indigenous Students by Confronting the Academic Environment / Joshua K. Mihesuah -- 12. So You Think You Hired an "Indian" Faculty Member?" The Ethnic Fraud Paradox in Higher Education / Cornel D. Pewewardy -- 13. Not the End of the Stories, Not the End of the Songs: Visualizing, Signifying, Counter-colonizing / David Anthony Tyeeme Clark.