Here is part one of my conversation with Charlie Scott! Charlie comes from Del Muerte, Arizona. They are a graduate of Brown University where they completed their Bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies and Sociology. At the time of the interview, they were in their final semester at the University of Rhode Island finishing their Master’s Program, and now preparing to attend the University of Denver in the fall for a doctoral program to study the link between higher education and settler colonialism. Charlie’s story truly reflects what it means to practice Navajo teachings in the 21st century, but they also amazingly articulate the beauty and challenges of being Navajo in the academy. /// IG: @dineaesthetics /// Twitter: @GrandmaSaidNo /// Blog: http://dineaesthetics.com/ /// Additional Readings: (1) Basso, Keith H. Wisdom sits in places: Landscape and language among the Western Apache. UNM Press, 1996. (2) Iverson, Peter. Diné: A history of the Navajos. UNM Press, 2002. (3)  Austin, Justice Raymond D. "Diné Sovereignty, a Legal and Traditional Analysis." Navajo Sovereignty: Understandings and Visions of the Diné People (2017) (4) Watts, Vanessa. "Indigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!)." Re-visiones 7 (2017).