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Title: $Cultivating Alliances: Reflections on the Role of Non-Indigenous Collaborators in Indigenous Educational Sovereignty
Abstract: Indigenous educational sovereignty is a question of equity and self-determination. Indigenous/non-Indigenous collaborations in practices of Indigenous educational sovereignty present pressing tensions and challenges to be negotiated. Speaking particularly to non-Indigenous scholar-educators, this article furthers understanding of the role(s) and responsibilities of non-Indigenous collaborators in support of community-driven educational sovereignty. Within the frameworks of Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Critical Discourse Studies, issues of when, where, and in what ways non-Indigenous scholar-educators may productively serve as allies in processes of community-driven education are addressed. Utilizing vignettes from the author's research and personal experience as a White scholar-educator collaborating with Indigenous communities, examples push beyond simple recognition of power relationships and move toward conscious allied power negotiation. This article concludes that alliance building between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholar-educators requires increased emphasis on praxis-oriented relationships which explicitly redress asymmetrical movements of power in current institutions of education, to better support Indigenous educational sovereignty.