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Taiaiake Alfred
Alfred, T. (2009). Warrior Scholarship : Seeing the University as a Ground of Contention. In D. Mihesuah et A. C. Wilson (dir.), Indigenizing the Acadamy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities (p.88-99). University of Nebraska.
What is “Indigenizing the academy?” To me, it means that we are working to change universities so that they become places where the values, principles, and modes of organization and behavior of our people are respected in, and hopefully even integrated into, the larger system of structures and processes that make up the university itself. In pursuing this objective, whether as students attempting to integrate traditional views and bring authentic community voices to our work, or as faculty members attempting to abide by a traditional ethic in the conduct of our relations in fulfilling our professional responsibilities, we as Indigenous people immediately come into confrontation with the fact that universities are intolerant of and resistant to any meaningful “Indigenizing.”