Native presence and sovereignty in college : sustaining indigenous weapons to defeat systemic monsters

Book

Native presence and sovereignty in college : sustaining indigenous weapons to defeat systemic monsters / Amanda R. Tachine.

Summary:

"What is at stake when our young people attempt to belong to a college environment that reflects a world that does not want them for who they are? In this compelling book, Navajo scholar Amanda Tachine takes a personal look at 10 Navajo teenagers, following their experiences during their last year in high school and into their first year in college. It is common to think of this life transition as a time for creating new connections to a campus community, but what if there are systemic mechanisms lurking in that community that hurt Native students’ chances of earning a degree? Tachine describes these mechanisms as systemic monsters and shows how campus environments can be sites of harm for Indigenous students due to factors that she terms monsters’ sense of belonging, namely assimilating, diminishing, harming the worldviews of those not rooted in White supremacy, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, racism, and Indigenous erasure. This book addresses the nature of those monsters and details the Indigenous weapons that students use to defeat them. Rooted in love, life, sacredness, and sovereignty, these weapons reawaken students’ presence and power." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0807766143
ISBN: 9780807766149
ISBN: 0807766135
ISBN: 9780807766132
Physical Description: xiv, 209 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Prelude: Navajo twin warriors -- Introduction -- Financial hardship monster -- Hauntings -- Monstrous internalization -- Resurgence as love-centered -- Deficit (not enough) monster -- Hauntings -- Monstrous internalization -- Continuance as life-centered -- Monstrous internalization and indigenous weapons as watchings -- Failure monster -- Hauntings -- Monstrous internalization -- Reverence as sacred-centered -- (In)visibility monster -- Hauntings -- Monstrous internalization -- Refusal as sovereignty-centered -- Indigenous presence and relational-sovereign belonging -- Postlude: hopes for the future.