Indigenous Voices of Girls and Women in Educational Spaces - Celebrating Presence

Centered around personal reflection and storytelling, Indigenous Voices of Girls and Women in Educational Spaces: Celebrating Presence weaves together narratives of educational resilience, kinship, and auntie support to highlight the importance of Indigenous perspectives in all learning spaces.

List of contents

Introduction 1. To Weave or to write? 2. Honoring Our Pathways and Stories that Embody Our Heartwork: Indigenizing the Academy as a Caigu Mayi (Kiowa Woman), an Asdz¿¿¿¿ (Diné Woman), and as a Laguna Pueblo Woman 3. Celebrating Survival lkwewag ganawendindiwag, Women care for each other: The role of mutual support in decolonizing the academy 4. Neyooxo Pedagogy: Navigating Academia through Kinship 5. Finding Place: Experiences of Native Women In the Tribally Controlled College Movement 6. "We're Still Here" - The Journey of Two American Indian Recruiters 7. What Is and What Could Be: A Critique of Western (U.S. settler-colonial) Wildlife and Natural Resources Education 8. Strength and Resilience: Native Women's Reflections on Higher Education 9. Illuminating the Bright Spots of Our Educational Pathways: A Gift From Us to Our Younger Selves

About the author

Stephanie Masta is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and is a professor of curriculum studies at Purdue University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie (Associate Professor in Curriculu Masta
• Assisted by: Stephanie Masta (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032560335
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256033-5
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; EDUCATION / General, Sociology, Anthropology, Relating to indigenous peoples, Gender studies: women, Moral and social purpose of education, Gender studies: women and girls, Multicultural education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity