Dear #Academia, can reflect on the wording “what can we learn from #Indigenous Knowledge/people/experience” for a sec?
1) That framing has the danger of being extractive, and it potentially diminishes us as only being of use when we serve non-Indigenous means 1/5
1) That framing has the danger of being extractive, and it potentially diminishes us as only being of use when we serve non-Indigenous means 1/5
Generalizable knowledge is important. But #academia must reconcile its colonial duality of discrediting our #knowledge systems while also wanting to benefit from it.
It’s time to enact protective and supportive structures if you value our contributions (hint to the NIH) 2/5
It’s time to enact protective and supportive structures if you value our contributions (hint to the NIH) 2/5
2) Requests for our knowledge can seem like a disingenuously guised #diversity #inclusion checkbox ☑️ that resembles “other”-ing, if unexpected.
Building trust is important here. So is not self-proclaiming allyship. If you want us to do the work, then you must work also. 3/5
Building trust is important here. So is not self-proclaiming allyship. If you want us to do the work, then you must work also. 3/5
3) Some #Indigenous Knowledge is SACRED and reserved for a particular time, space, purpose. It is not up to us to share.
Extending invites only bc you believe we are willing to divulge this knowledge means you only view us in one lens: as brown people and not as colleagues 4/5
Extending invites only bc you believe we are willing to divulge this knowledge means you only view us in one lens: as brown people and not as colleagues 4/5
We appreciate the inclusion, but more importantly we appreciate the RESPECT, which should be reciprocal. 5/5
