https://www.sumidahuaman.com/teaching daily 0.75 2023-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/b98f64a9-6443-4403-8d48-67ddc289d855/Screen+Shot+2022-07-16+at+5.01.52+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1605566338318-ABP6OWVDNI87OCCER6SE/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+4.33.04+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1603942275615-WKYU346KYBH9XSU6JXWT/Screen+Shot+2020-10-28+at+10.30.43+PM.png Teaching - Indigenous relationships with nature (Webinar Series) October 2, October 22, November 19, and December 17, 2020: This is a 4-part webinar series featuring Indigenous educators, scholars, and community members. The series is completely free, and no registration is required. Hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1603941867116-MSWS2MVVOVNB0UM4V6KG/121465776_3363374493715587_1386504065874912494_o.png Teaching - Indigenous Culture Week: Global Perspectives Day Considerers of the World: Rethinking development through Indigenous Research October 14, 2020: Virtual lecture hosted by the Circle of Indigenous Nations, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1585734616232-TCXBERH08EUIWJFPH38O/Screen+Shot+2020-04-01+at+13.31.57.png Teaching - Indigenous Decolonization Colloquium. What is decolonizing and Indigenous research? The colonial matrix of power and Indigenous knowledge systems March 11, 2020: Hosted by Leech Lake Tribal College in Cass Lake, Minnesota https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1586255008084-1MNSWILB7IS5CN01PK6R/Screen+Shot+2020-04-07+at+14.22.29.png Teaching - Indigenous Women and Research. (Elizabeth Sumida Huaman and Tessie Naranjo) November 4, 2019: Hosted by will brehm on FreshEd Podcast After co-editing a special issue in International Journal of Human Rights Education, Tessie Naranjo and I were featured on FreshEd Podcast to speak about Indigenous women and research. https://www.sumidahuaman.com/good-works daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1585735816889-Y9A3F8TSPVYPVMD6K7XY/Screen+Shot+2020-04-01+at+14.03.46.png Good Works Recommendations for Good Research. What is good research? Not all research conducted by Indigenous researchers is Indigenous research, nor is Indigenous research only about working with an Indigenous community. Indigenous research is worldview in the way that social constructivist, feminist, or positivist research are ways of understanding what research is, what it does, and how it should be shaped. I am inspired by research conducted by different generations of scholars who think carefully about the work they do and how they engage and transform research—quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, historic/archival—to further Indigenous self-determination and Indigenous self-development. Here are some resources I find helpful in my own work. I’m so grateful to these Indigenous and ally scholars. Isisi sulpay kayami. Urpillay sonqollay. *Photo: Celebrates Dr. Porter Swentzell (Santa Clara), Dr. Peggy Bird (Kewa), Dr. Rachell Tenorio (Kewa), and Dr. Amanda Montoya (Taos) https://www.sumidahuaman.com/aboutme daily 1.0 2025-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1585723561590-IH40RRUGMVGIVADZBYRW/Hala+Calchay.jpeg About me - “I am an educational researcher studying the relationship between Indigenous ecologies, cultural practices, and in and out-of-school educational development in the Americas. I collaborate with Indigenous communities and institutions that prioritize decolonial education, which requires maintaining and protecting Indigenous knowledge systems.” — Elizabeth Sumida Huaman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1583410304472-5KVN1V7YMUR3IMVBN1Z9/Habas.jpeg About me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1597071963265-LASERQ3RJC73RVPNBA1X/IMG_3142.jpeg About me - My Research and Practice Focal Areas Indigenous Knowledge Systems and educational design (in and out-of-schools) Ecology, environmental studies, and place-based education Indigenous and Quechua research methodologies Comparative Indigenous Education Research Indigenous lands, extractive development, and national and local education policy and practice Indigenous environmental and science curriculum and pedagogy (formal schooling, out-of-school, social pedagogy) Indigenous rights education (IRE) and human rights education (HRE) Earth Rights and Indigenous Rights in internationalization Indigenous higher education and self-determination (Tribal Colleges and Universities, Intercultural universities) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1585724137173-9LWLY43OA0206YIH98N2/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-04-01%2Bat%2B10.53.16.jpg About me - For prospective master’s and doctoral students, visit the Comparative and International Development Education program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where you can obtain information about studying with our world renowned faculty. Each faculty member has both general thematic expertise with theory development and specific geographic, population, and methodological research and policy experience and knowledge. July 2022: The global Covid-19 pandemic has revealed critical gaps in the links between health, environment, economy, and policy. Your training as a graduate student is an opportunity to connect with change makers and creative thinkers as you pursue work that makes a difference in a number of ways, including through a) robust research development, b) policy analysis, and c) experimental educational design. This is a crucial time to think about how you will enact agency in a rapidly changing world. https://www.sumidahuaman.com/books daily 0.75 2023-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/c087da49-a9ce-459b-a70d-c2d34723a2ad/Screenshot+2023-03-23+at+9.18.26+PM.png Books - Indigenous research design: Transnational perspectives in practice (2023) Indigenous Research Design is an interdisciplinary text that explores how researchers reimagine research paradigms, frameworks, designs, and methods. Building upon the theories and research teachings presented by Indigenous Peoples in Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies, editors Elizabeth Sumida Huaman and Nathan D. Martin present practical formations and applications of Indigenous research for a variety of community, student, professional, and educational projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/c355a90f-c3e7-49b4-b8f3-23737326668c/Screenshot+2023-03-23+at+9.33.26+PM.png Books - Comparative Indigenous education (2022) As a project of state political and economic agendas, the schooling of Indigenous peoples has historically tended to reflect everyone else’s values, standards, and objectives but our own. However, for Indigenous communities, education is part of an array of long-term self-determination strategies that serve Indigenous autonomy, which is undergirded by Indigenous knowledge systems that encompass the political, economic, environmental, health, social, and cultural lives of Indigenous communities. Accordingly, Indigenous education in its many designs is founded in Indigenous struggles for interlinking forms and realizations of justice that recognize environmental dignity as indivisible from human life. Furthermore, the philosophies and enactments that sustain Indigenous autonomy in one place are never removed from other Indigenous places and the efforts of their people. This bridging across Indigenous worlds and our distinct and collective decolonial and interepistemic meanings of education constitute comparative Indigenous education, the focus of this themed issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1588280513497-DK8LIEH7GG6CCW3PIU24/Screen+Shot+2020-04-30+at+4.00.40+PM.png Books - Indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies: Local solutions and global opportunities: (2020) Bringing together researchers from geographically, culturally, and linguistically diverse regions, this book offers practical guidance and lessons learned from research projects in and with Indigenous communities around the world. With an aim to examine issues of power, representation, participation, and accountability in studies involving Indigenous populations, the contributors reflect on their experiences conducting collaborative research in distinct yet related fields. The book is anchored by several themes: exploring decolonizing methodological paradigms, honoring Indigenous knowledge systems, and growing interdisciplinary collaboration toward Indigenous self-determination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1584563984579-QYI80R6JGZA16KE6IY7A/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+3.38.37+PM.png Books - Indigenous women and research: Global conversations on Indigeneity, rights, and education (2019) We are Indigenous women of two different generations witnessing changes and continuities in the places that matter most to us. We have been doing research in our own villages and elsewhere and writing about and with our people, which are experiences that require reflection (of what we see and hear), circumspection (regarding knowledge seeking and dissemination), and action (contributing to transformation). Thus, this special issue is also the result of our questions as Indigenous women researchers seeking to learn how others define self-determination and navigate whose interests are represented, as well as through what lenses we process our research and how other Indigenous women see themselves in relation to community and the global social, cultural, and political movement of Indigenous self-determination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1596834851667-U94YWMXC3G694MRLWM1T/international-review-of-education.jpg Books - Indigenous knowledges and learning: Vital contributions towards sustainability (2019) In this special issue we rethink dominant discourses of development, globalization and sustainability, focusing on local Indigenous ideas, practices and visions of education that hold direct benefit for Indigenous peoples and broader impacts for all peoples. These contributions exemplify global diversity and respond to a critical question posed at the height of globalisation discourses and still relevant today: “Education for what will prevail in the globalization age?” (Stromquist and Monkman 2000, p. 21). In an era marked by widening economic and education disparities, and increasing environmental, social and political precarity (Grande 2018), Indigenous and other non-dominant peoples are rendered most vulnerable. Within the scope of the regions and peoples represented in this issue, we aim to counter that precarity through a critical global dialogue on the significance of Indigenous knowledge systems to education for a sustainable future. (Co-Edited with M. Tom & T.L. McCarty) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1585732344676-IPREE1RP1P68UQT52LZT/Screen+Shot+2020-04-01+at+13.11.09.png Books - Indigenous innovations in higher education: Local knowledge and critical research (2017) This edited volume is the result of a collaborative project of Indigenous graduate education training and higher education-tribal institution partnerships in the southwestern United States. We feature the work of interdisciplinary scholars writing about local peoples, issues, and knowledges that demonstrate rich linkages between universities and Indigenous communities. Collectively, as Indigenous peoples writing, this work takes the opportunity to explore why and how Indigenous peoples are working to reframe dominant limits of our power and to shift educational efforts from the colonial back to an Indigenous center. These efforts reflect a conscientious practice to maintain Indigenous worldviews through diverse yet unified approaches aimed at serving Indigenous peoples and places. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1585732469069-A7XTBLHH7C49M4SZQ58B/Screen+Shot+2020-04-01+at+13.13.57.png Books - Indigenous innovations: Universalities and peculiarities (2015) Rooted in diverse cultures and in distinct regions of the world, Indigenous people have for generations created, maintained, and negotiated clear and explicit relationships with their environments. Despite numerous historical disruptions and steady iterations of imperialism that continue through today, Indigenous communities embody communities of struggle/resistance and intense vitality/creativity. In this work, a fellowship of Indigenous research has emerged, and our collective intent is to share critical narratives that link together Indigenous worldviews, culturally-based notions of ecology, and educational practices in places and times where human relationships with the world that are restorative, transformative, and just are being sought. https://www.sumidahuaman.com/journalarticles daily 0.75 2025-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1623983187461-BLJPZ2VSYRECVABAXG9H/IMG_1610.jpeg Journal Articles and Chapters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1584562366316-QF6RSIJN6XC0IWU1MJ0Z/Yalpana+Wasi+2.jpeg Journal Articles and Chapters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1584561899738-XPNRMDGXYLY4PVI9QRIN/Sacred+Valley.jpeg Journal Articles and Chapters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/d8452fa3-7574-4246-b978-f8030027325b/IMG_5681.jpeg Journal Articles and Chapters https://www.sumidahuaman.com/researchprojects daily 0.75 2025-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1585736889936-7H4YR3HOW12VTQGO5VD6/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Research Projects - Indigenous and Comparative Frameworks and Enactments of Rights Through long-term collaborations with Indigenous communities, I look at how Indigenous communities define and practice their rights/responsibilities, which are always rooted in place and earth relations. I developed comparative Indigenous education research (CIER), an approach to collaborative rigorous research that looks with community members at environmental studies through the lens of education. CIER de-centers coloniality and shifts educational focus towards sharing and learning across Indigenous communities and geographic contexts. Examples of this work: Research projects with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and Small Indigenous Schools in the Americas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1585736996622-4EDESODPAPHJV77F9KII/Beautiful%2Bresources.jpg Research Projects - Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Community-Based Learning I explore Indigenous knowledge systems in relation to educational design, both in and out-of-school. I am interested in the greater ecology of Indigenous communities, which includes relationships with state actors whose agendas shape, support, or harm Indigenous learning philosophies and practices. As ways of knowing and ways of doing with identifiable structures and institutions, Indigenous knowledge systems reflect and create strategies that address threats surrounding land and environment, holistic comprehension of health, and Indigenous constructions of governance, economy, technology, and education. With Porter Swentzell (Tewa), we developed generative environmental pedagogies as a framework for Indigenous knowledge system resilience and adaptation through education. Examples of this work: Indigenous farmer knowledge and the study of tensions and inequities between communities and schooling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e60d72ad8757b66ab0fb8ae/1585737056938-LW8IFO6VPCGC3OD1NJXB/Templo%2BWiracocha.jpg Research Projects - Crucial Interfaces: Development, Modernity, and Indigenous Places and Peoples I examine discourses and projects of development, modernization, and globalization and their impacts on Indigenous lands and peoples. I focus on the structures, strategies, and impacts of coloniality in nations with Indigenous populations and in relation to community-based initiatives, interventions, and social movements, which add to our understanding of Indigenous resistances, negotiations, and adaptations to exogenous development agendas. Examples of this work: Questioning the meaning of progress and the meaning of rights toward re-centering nature and its fragility and beauty https://www.sumidahuaman.com/home daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec313d79e46600019959fb/1559154840855-HGPV37P63PDTX3G5SGD9/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec313d79e46600019959fb/1559250423957-ZJ0CYEGWSA9Y6AUP3PGD/image-asset.jpeg Home I believe that in a world of modern maladies caused by work and lifestyle, food is often the best medicine. I teach my clients how to make small dietary changes that stack up big gains over time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec313d79e46600019959fb/1559165146340-DCON2SWINPURX5M1DA8I/image-asset.jpeg Home - “Colette’s method is incredible. I completely changed my eating habits, but never felt like I was missing out on anything.”