Ronald Beghetto and Amanda Tachine talk about Tachine’s journey growing up in a Navajo community and how that inspired her to work to affirm native presence in school settings. Tachine mentions how native people’s ideologies have been excluded consistently in the creation of what we now call school and how there needs to be a change in the ways that native people are represented, to sustain indigenous presence in schools. Tachine imagines a future where education is love-centered, and where exclusion has no place, especially for all the native people who deserve to have their culture respected and honored. 

You can learn more about Dr. Amanda Tachine’s work by following these links: 

Lumina Foundation podcast episode,  ASU profile, you can also follow her on twitter: @atachine 
Be sure to keep an eye out for her new book, tentatively titled Native Presence and Sovereignty in College.

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The Learning Futures Podcast is produced at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Executive Producers are Dr. Sean Leahy and Claire Gilbert. The show is produced by Dr. Clarin Collins and Karina Muñoz Baltazar. Audio production provided by Claire Gilbert.