ABSTRACT

As an Indigenous scholar in the academy, I am often consumed by thoughts of how to construct space for Native intellectualism in an institution historically designed for its evisceration. Embedded in the collective consciousness of most Native peoples is the memory of school as a site of cultural genocide. My work is thus guided by the moral imperative to reimagine school as a site of revolutionary struggle and in this way, reclaim the sovereignty and self-determination of all Indigenous peoples.