Editorial: Indigenizing the International Academy

Abstract

The 2014 theme, Indigenizing the International Academy, was inspired by a five-day invited international Indigenous roundtable held during May 2013 at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver campus that fo­cused on the theme Place, Belonging and Promise: Indigenizing the Interna­tional Academy. This roundtable recognized the contested discourses, tensions, possibilities, and sites related to actions, expectations, and aspi­rations of Indigenous faculty, allies, post-secondary students, community activists, Elders, and youth to Indigenize the academy. Participants came from colonized countries such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, the last countries to become signatories to the United Na­tions Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The domestic and international dimensions of the roundtable added richness and extended our understandings of the challenges and possibilities of Indigenizing the international academy. At the conclusion of the roundtable, a commitment was made to extend the scholarship on this important topic through the Canadian Journal of Native Education (CJNE) 2014 theme issue.