MAI Te Kupenga: Supporting Māori and Indigenous Doctoral Scholars within Higher Education
Sarah Jane Tiakiwai
Looks at radio and television coverage of key events or issues in both non-Native American-produced and Native American-created programs found in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting collection. Divided into five sections: (Mis)Representations of Native Americans; Termination, Relocation, and Restoration; The American Indian Movement; Native Americans in Contemporary News Media; and Visual Sovereignty: Native-Created Public Media.
Author uses her own experiences as non-Indigenous woman of color to explore the challenges in becoming an ally with Indigenous communities fight in their fight for decolonization.
Discusses how Lee Maracle leads her readers to see the realities of a world that is rigid and unequally divided by using "we", "I" and "you" to flip the idea of "others".