Indigenous Knowledge and Education

american indian studies
Villegas, Malia, Neugebauer, Sabina Rak & Venegas, Kerry. 2008. Indigenous Knowledge and Education: Sites of Struggle, Strength, and Survivance. Harvard Educational
Review.

Write out each question single-spaced, skip one line and then answer the question, double-spaced using your own words in combination with quotes from the readings to
support your answers. (1) What is the DataCenter vision for knowledge production? How would it transform the experiences of the poor, Indigenous people, people of color and other
marginalized populations? Finally what is radical love and how can it be used as a strategy for social transformation?
(2) According to the author how did being embedded in a single-parent empowerment program as a graduate student impact her? What kinds of programs did she observe
and what did she want to give back as a result of her participation in these groups?

(3) What is disaster justice according to Eda in chapter 9 and how does he suggest this concept can be used to reduce disaster nationalism? How is disaster justice
related to research justice according to the author?
(4) According to chapter 11, how did research justice change the way researches worked with the women in the birthing justice group? Please give at least two
examples of the stores of the women who participated in the birthing group to discuss how race, gender, and health intersect.