Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy

Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn, Christine A. Nelson, Heather J. Shotton

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781978816374, 9781978816381
• eBook ISBN: 9781978816411
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Higher Education
• Index: Social Sciences

Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy highlights the experiences and narratives emerging from Indigenous mothers in the academy who are negotiating their roles in multiple contexts. The essays in this volume contribute to the broader higher education literature and the literature on Indigenous representation in the academy, filling a longtime gap that has excluded Indigenous women scholar voices. This book covers diverse topics such as the journey to motherhood, lessons through motherhood, acknowledging ancestors and grandparents in one's mothering, how historical trauma and violence plague the past, and balancing mothering through the healing process. More specific to Indigenous motherhood in the academy is how culture and place impacts mothering (specifically, if Indigenous mothers are not in their traditional homelands as they raise their children), how academia impacts mothering, how mothering impacts scholarship, and how to negotiate loss and other complexities between motherhood and one's role in the academy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction / Christine A. Nelson, Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn, and Heather J. Shotton
• Part I. East–Thinking
• Part II. South–Planning
• Part III. West–Living
• Part IV. North–Assuring
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors
• Index