In May, I participated on a panel chronicling how high achieving P’urhepecha migrants overcome academic obstacles. The stories shared were inspirational; a Harvard graduate going on to medical school after being raised by a single mother, an Electrical Engineer raised in Tijuana and educated at one of the most competitive tech schools in California, and …
Knowledge of Native survivance, settler colonialism, and Native students should be requisite teacher knowledge to counter deficit thinking, detect and interrupt settler colonial discourses in educational policy and practice
American culture is obsessed with determining “the best,” and I have to admit that I am not above playing that game. People are constantly debating questions such as: Who was most important baseball player of all-time? What was the best song of the 1980s? Who is the best American writer in history? Who was the best Olympic athlete ever? Who …
