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Thoughts on Surviving as Native Scholars in the Academy - I offer here some thoughts on life in academia, some possible strategies for survival and achievement. All the while I recognize how hard it is, every day, how crazy this life is, how crazy our lives are in the twenty-first century after everything our communities and families and nations have gone through. In so many ways, and it has been said by many, it is a miracle that we are where we are; it is a gracious miracle bequeathed to us by the wondrous and powerful spirits of our ancestors and by the tremendous power of this earth, which knows us and remembers us and holds us dear, that we are in the academy, working and being creative. These thoughts I am offering are in no particular order—they come as I write. Suffice it to say, I have been knocked down many a time by the academy, by arrogant racist faculty who literally at times cannot even speak to me, who in committee meetings turn their backs on me, who cannot even begin to try to fathom what it is I do in Native American studies. Sometimes I
The American Indian Quarterly – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Sep 17, 2004
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