We were honored to host Dr. Amanda Tachine (Dine‘) to speak to our Community-Based Research Methods course. Dr. Tachine is Navajo from Ganado, Arizona. She is Náneesht’ézhí Táchii’nii (Zuni Red Running into Water) born for Tł’ízí łání (Many Goats). She is an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership & Innovation at Arizona State University. Amanda’s research explores the relationship between systemic and structural histories of settler colonialism and the ongoing erasure of Indigenous presence and belonging in college settings using qualitative Indigenous methodologies.
She is the author of the award-winning book, Native Presence and Sovereignty in College: Sustaining Indigenous Weapons to Defeat Systemic Monsters and co-editor (alongside Z Nicolazzo) of Weaving an Otherwise: In-relations Methodological Practice.
During her vist, she shared her personal story of her own scholarly growth and held a student workshop at the Downtown campus for the UTSA Graduate students and PhD candidates in the program, where they explored epistemological and methodological approaches to conducting research within local Indigenous communities. We are very grateful for her visit and the knowledge she shared during her presentation.
