When
Free Online Event - No Registration Needed
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 10.30 am MST
Zoom Link HERE
The Southwest Center and the Center for University Education Scholarship invite you to Dr. Christine Ami's presentation of Do I Engage Epistemological Dominance in Academia?. This lecture is part of activities developed by Dr. Jennifer Jenkins's CUES Distinguished Fellowship project, Querencia.
"So much has been written about Native Americans in academia by non-Natives; how free am I to reciprocate the favor by presenting my experience with a non-Native?" Dr. Ami (Diné) writes in "When Waters Rise and Rocks Speak" (2019) of an experience with an ally who stole credentials, Indigenous and academic, to pursue a goal of Indigenous inclusion in curriculum within tribal lands.
Building from this experience, Dr. Ami's talk brings forth a much needed and often uncomfortable conversation of how to engage with Indigenous knowledge, community members, and ways of living within academia. Regardless of tenureship or title, the color of our skin, our academic training, or number of DEI certificates listed on our CV, at some point we all have engaged with and event perpetuated epistemological dominance that subjugates Indigenous people.
Dr. Ami asks in this talk for attendees to explore how we have employed cultural gaslighting as allies and/or Indigenous people. This self-assessment becomes the first step in moving the all too common narrative of "respectful relationship building with Indigenous communities" from grant jargon to trustful engagement.