Global InformationWaziyatawin information
Waziyatawin | |
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 Waziyatawin in 2011 | |
| Born | Angela Lynn Cavender February 13, 1968 Virginia, Minnesota |
| Other names | Angela Cavender Wilson |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Minnesota Cornell University |
| Thesis | De Kiksuyapo! (Remember This!): The Eli Taylor Narratives and Dakota Conceptions of History (2000) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | American history |
| Sub-discipline | History of Native Americans in the United States |
| Main interests | Indigenous decolonization |
Waziyatawin is a Wahpetunwan Dakota professor, author, and activist from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) in southwestern Minnesota.[1]
Her research interests include Indigenous women's roles in resisting colonialism, recovering Indigenous knowledge, and truth-telling as part of restorative justice. She has authored and edited several books about Dakota history, Indigenous resistance, and strategies for decolonization.
Waziyatawin is recognized as a leading Indigenous intellectual and was a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples in the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria. She taught at Arizona State University from 2000 to 2007.
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