ABSTRACT
Scholarship as leadership can be most effective when it is a collective effort. Even though Indigenous scholars have made advances in making space of indigeneity in the academy, people still must strive to expand and elaborate this space. The movement of the sea reminds the author of other waterways recently visited, the fast-moving Red River in Manitoba, home of the Cree; the mighty Missouri River in South Dakota, home of the Sioux. A site of struggle requires no less than a social movement to create sustainable space. Indigenous scholars must join arms and hands together to support one another in this effort. Experiential education is the way people have learned in traditional societies. The books are great, but only when balanced with experience. There is no better way to learn than through lived experience. Good things can come from painful wounds historical trauma, disappointments in organizations, and insults from colleagues who do not understand Indigenous epistemology.
