Waziyatawin

Waziyatawin is a Wahpetunwan Dakota professor, author, and activist from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) in southwestern Minnesota.

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. Provided by Wikipedia