This episode delves into higher education for Native students. While colleges and universities around the US are releasing land acknowledgements, the Indigenous students who come from these lands make up only 1% of college students nationally. We know college can be a source of power and strength for our communities, but we also know the experiences of Native students in college can be difficult and heartbreaking. If higher education in predominantly white, colonial, western institutions is potentially very dangerous for Native people: why should we still look to college as a goal for Native students?

To help us explore this question, we talk with Dr. Amanda Tachine (Diné), Assistant Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Teacher’s College, Arizona State University; Dr. Bryan Brayboy (Lumbee), President’s Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University; Carmen Lopez (Diné), Executive Director of College Horizons; and Dominick Joseph (Tulalip), a graduate student at The University of Washington.

Dr. Tachine’s book, “Native Presence and Sovereignty in College:Sustaining Indigenous Weapons to Defeat Systemic Monsters” can be found here: https://www.tcpress.com/native-presence-and-sovereignty-in-college-9780807766132

Dr. Brayboy’s most recent book, “The School-Prison Trust” can be found here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-school-prison-trust

Find out more about College Horizons at https://collegehorizons.org

And check out Dom’s podcast, “DomJoseph Podcast” at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dom-joseph-podcast/id1452117571
 
 

Huge thanks to the AMR team:

·       Does All The Things- Teo Shantz

·       1st Editor- Jonathan Stein

·       2nd Editor- Darrien Camarillo

·       Social Media- Lindsey Hightower

·       Production Management- Will Paisley

Music for this episode was provided by Black Belt Eagle Scout.
 https://www.blackbelteaglescout.com/

In this episode we focus solely on white, western institutions, but we want to acknowledge there is also an entire alternative system of Native higher education already in place we hope to explore in a future episode: Tribal Colleges and Universities! For more information on TCUs: https://sites.ed.gov/whiaiane/tribes-tcus/tribal-colleges-and-universities/

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