ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Indigenous critiques of higher education and Indigenous feminist critiques of higher education. It offers the tensions between Pacific peoples and feminisms moving into where Pacific feminisms. Higher education and feminisms generally lack Pacific voices there are a number of practices within higher education and feminisms that actively silence Pacific peoples in both higher education and feminisms. To understand the potential, it is important to take some time to reflect on Pacific peoples and their relationships with feminisms. The chapter highlights decolonization as a rejection of the system that advocates for an entirely new system built from Indigenous ontologies. Decolonization and indigenization are also often used together within higher education texts. Indigenous academics have written on how higher education can be indigenized and/or decolonized through research, teaching and structural reform. Therefore, reframing research to center Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies is a key step towards the overall decolonization and/or indigenization project in higher education.
