12/12/12 Waziyatawin: Dakota writer, teacher, and activist

Waziyatawin is currently writing on the topics of Indigenous women and resistance and Indigenous survival in the collapse of industrial civilization.  Waziyatawin comes from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) in southwestern Minnesota.  After receiving her Ph.D. in American history from Cornell University in 2000, she earned tenure and an associate professorship in the history department at Arizona State University where she taught for seven years.  Waziyatawin currently holds the Indigenous Peoples Research Chair in the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria.  She is the author or co/editor of six volumes, including What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland (St. Paul: Living Justice Press, 2008), which won the 2009 Independent Publishers’ Silver Book Award for Best Regional Non-Fiction in the Midwest, and the newly released, For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook (Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2012).