Waziyatawin Angela Wilson, Ph.D.

Waziyatawin is a Wahpetunwan Dakota from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) in southwestern Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in American history from Cornell University in 2000 and spent seven years teaching in the history department at Arizona State University where she earned tenure and an associate professorship. She is currently the Indigenous Peoples Research Chair in the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. She has a background in Dakota language immersion education and her first book, Remember This!: Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives (University of Nebraska, 2005) was one of the first Dakota language texts to be published as part of the language revitalization movement. She has also authored or co/edited five additional volumes including: Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities (University of Nebraska, 2004); For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook (SAR Press, 2005); In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors (Living Justice Press, 2006); What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Justice in Dakota Homeland (Living Justice Press, 2008), winner of the 2009 Independent Publisher’s Silver Book Award for Best Regional Non-fiction-Midwest; and, her forthcoming book For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook (SAR, Fall 2012).