This book shares perspectives from Indigenous leaders in academic affairs, student affairs, and central administration to improve colleges and universities in service to Indigenous students and professionals. Essential for those studying Education Leadership and Indigenous Studies, it offers insights for transforming higher education
This book offers new perspectives from Indigenous leaders in academic affairs, student affairs, and central administration to improve colleges and universities in service to Indigenous students and professionals. Providing rich context on the realities of Indigenous leadership in today’s higher education landscape, and highlighting organizations that center Indigenous knowledges and approaches, the volume brings together prominent voices of Indigenous Peoples on administration and governance, Indigenous leadership academic programs, and Indigenous student leadership and activism. The book discusses and illustrates ways that leadership norms, values, assumptions, and behaviors can often originate from cultural identities, and how these assumptions can affect how colleges and universities evolve to serve Indigenous Peoples. The perspectives in this book contribute valuable insights for leadership development and reflection among novice, experienced, and emerging leaders in higher education, and offers key recommendations for transforming higher education. This volume will be important reading for those studying or researching Education Leadership, Indigenous Studies, Higher Education, Foundations of Education, and Multicultural Education, and will serve as a beneficial resource to Indigenous leaders and educational leaders.
Introduction Section 1: Administration and Governance
1. Advocating for
Our Future Generations: Strategies of Indigenous Women in Academia for
Representation, Rights, and Reciprocity in Attaining Academic Success
2.
Creating a Higher Education Collaborative through a Diné Perspective
3.
Kuleana to the Lhui: A Genealogy of iwi Leadership in Higher Education
4.
Cultivating Indigenous Leadership: Insights from Young Elders
5. Making
Campus: Building Within and Beyond
6. Walk Into the Room Like Your Ancestors
Sent You Section 2: Indigenous Leadership Academic Programs
7. Developing
Native American Leaders: A Discussion of the Masters in Native Leadership at
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
8. Liberating Sovereign Futures:
Growing Educational Leadership Preparation Programming in Higher Education
9.
Ancestral Leadership: Planting Our Legacy through Visionary and Holistic
Leadership of the Corn Pollen
10. Ke Kani a Ka Pahu: Balancing the Myth of
Academic Leadership on a Thin Blade of Grass
11. The Evolution of an
Indigenous Student Success Center at a Community and Technical College in
Washington State
12. Hooponopono to Improve Family Engagement in Academic
Programs
13. Tribute of Culture and Place: Acknowledging the Empowerment of
Partnership with Muckleshoot Tribal College in Higher Education Section 3:
Indigenous Student Leadership and Activism
14. Living Indigenous
Methodologies through the Guidance of Academic Ancestors: Stories of
Mentorship, Disruption, and Community in our Doctoral Journey
15. An
Indigenous Leadership Renaissance: Conceptualizing Leadership and Activism
through Acts of Home-Going and the 4Rs
16. Indigenous Student Activism and
Movements: Removing Racist Representations and Colonial Narratives in the
Academy
17. Giving Back as a Form of Student Leadership for Native
Undergraduate STEM Students
18. Developing Native Student Leaders in Higher
Education through ONASHE (Oklahoma Native American Students in Higher
Education
19. Inspiring Global Indigenous Leaders through Student Mobility
Closing
Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn (Kiowa/Apache/Nez Perce/Umatilla/Assiniboine) is Professor and Department Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma, USA.
Tiffany D. Smith (Cherokee/Muscogee) is Director of Research and Career Support at AISES Advancing Indigenous People in STEM, New Mexico, USA.
Theresa J. Ambo (Gabrielino/Tongva, Luiseno) is Associate Professor of American Indian Studies and Education, at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
