Overview

Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy highlights the experiences and narratives emerging from Indigenous mothers in the academy who are negotiating their roles in multiple contexts. The essays in this volume contribute to the broader higher education literature and the literature on Indigenous representation in the academy, filling a longtime gap that has excluded Indigenous women scholar voices. This book covers diverse topics such as the journey to motherhood, lessons through motherhood, acknowledging ancestors and grandparents in one’s mothering, how historical trauma and violence plague the past, and balancing mothering through the healing process. More specific to Indigenous motherhood in the academy is how culture and place impacts mothering (specifically, if Indigenous mothers are not in their traditional homelands as they raise their children), how academia impacts mothering, how mothering impacts scholarship, and how to negotiate loss and other complexities between motherhood and one’s role in the academy.

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Author:   Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn ,  Christine A. Nelson ,  Heather J. Shotton ,  Christine A. Nelson
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9781978816381

ISBN 10:   1978816383
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   19 August 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Section I: East-Thinking An Indigenous boy occupying the academy and the intergenerational (motherly) teachings that led him there Christine A. Nelson (K’awaika/Diné) “She had no use for fools”: Stories of Dibé Łizhiní mothers Tiffany S. Lee (Diné/Lakota) Nine Months of Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy: A Rainbow Journey From the Islands to Na’Neelzhíín Leola Tsinnijinnie-Paquin (Diné) M(othering) and the Academy Susan Faircloth (Coharie Tribe of North Carolina) My Children Are My Teachers:  Lessons Learned as a Kanaka Maoli Mother-Scholar Nicole Reyes (Native Hawaiian) Dreams of Hózhó Within the Womb: A Navajo Mother’s Letter to Her Newest Love Nizhoni Chow-Garcia (Diné) Section II: South-Planning Hollo Micha Oh Chash:  Drawing from our Choctaw ancestors’ wisdom to decolonize motherhood within the academy Michelle Johnson-Jennings (Choctaw), Alayah Johnson-Jennings (Choctaw, Quapaw, Sac & Fox, Miami Nations), & Ahnili Johnson-Jennings (Choctaw, Quapaw, Sac & Fox, Miami Nations) Mvskoke Eckvlke (Muscogee Motherhood) in Academic Spaces Dwanna L. McKay (Mvskoke) The (Time) Line in the Sand Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Tlingit/Zuni) Protection and the Power of Reproduction Shelly Lowe (Diné) A Glint of Decolonial Love: An Academic Mother's Meditation on Navigating and Leveraging the University Tria Blu Wakpa (Powhatan Descent) Honoring our Relations (Collective Stories) Section III: West-Living Widening the Path: Reflection of Two Generations in Academia Symphony Oxendine (Cherokee/Choctaw) & Denise Henning (Cherokee/Choctaw) Mothers and Daughters are Forever Renée Holt (Diné and Nimiipuu) A Journey of Indigenous Motherhood Through the Love, Loss and the P&T Process Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn (Kiowa/Apache/Umatilla/Nez Perce/Assiniboine) Indigenous Motherhood in STEM Otakuye Conroy Ben (Oglala Lakota) Kuhkwany Kuchemayo ‘Aaknach, An Iipay Mother’s/Teacher’s Story Theresa Gregor (Iipay/Yoeme) Impact of a Pandemic on Indigenous Motherhood Section IV: North-Assuring Our Journey Through Healing Sloan Woska-pi-mi Shotton (Otoe-Missouria/Iowa/Wichita/Kiowa/Cheyenne) & Heather J. Shotton (Wichita/Kiowa/Cheyenne) Motherhood, Re-Imagined Pearl Brower (Iñupiaq/Armenian/Chippewa) Weaving Fine Baskets of Resilience:Resilient Mothering in the Academy as Kanaka Nation Building Erin Kahunawaikaʻala Wright (Native Hawaiian) Hā‘ena-i-ku‘u-poli: A Letter to My Daughter Kaiwipuni Lipe (Native Hawaiian) A Hidden Cartography: Matrilinealizing the Terrain of Academe Charlotte Davidson (Diné) Berries and Her Many Lectures: The Work of Storywork Stephanie Waterman (Onondaga/Turtle Clan) Tying The Bundle Notes on Contributors

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This book on Indigenous Motherhood eloquently weaves together the beauty, strength, and resilience of those who transform academic spaces for the benefit of Indigenous students, families, and communities. This is the book I yearned for as a graduate student and Indigenous mother-scholar. --Jennifer Brant University of Toronto, co-editor of 'Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada'

"""This book on Indigenous Motherhood eloquently weaves together the beauty, strength, and resilience of those who transform academic spaces for the benefit of Indigenous students, families, and communities. This is the book I yearned for as a graduate student and Indigenous mother-scholar.""--Jennifer Brant ""University of Toronto, co-editor of 'Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada'"" ""Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy is a brilliantly felt and witnessed act of collective Indigenous scholarship from a fiercely honest new generation of teachers and intellectual leaders who affirm their whole selves as the heart of nurturing present and future Indigenous generations.""--Dian Million, (Tanana) ""author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights"""

Author Information

ROBIN ZAPE-TAH-HOL-AH MINTHORN is an associate professor of educational leadership, director of the EdD program, and Director of Indigenous education initiatives at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She is a citizen of the Kiowa tribe and descendent of Apache, Umatilla, Nez Perce and Assiniboine tribes. She is the coeditor of Indigenous Leadership in Higher Education and Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education (Rutgers University Press). HEATHER J. SHOTTON is an associate professor and the department chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. She is also the director of Indigenous Education Initiatives. She is an enrolled citizen of the Wichita & Affiliated Tribes. Shotton is coeditor of Beyond the Asterisk: Understanding Native Students in Higher Education, Beyond College Access: Indigenizing Programs for Student Success, and Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education (Rutgers University Press). CHRISTINE A. NELSON is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Denver in Colorado. She is of the DinÉ and Laguna Pueblo tribes of the southwest.

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