In the poem “Academic Indian Job Description: Have To Know,” Cree scholar Cash Ahenakew describes his difficulties (and those of others) in adapting to the academic context and its expectations with his Indigenous subjectivity and corresponding values.<\/p>\n
Academic Indian Job Description: Have To Know [Auszug]<\/strong><\/p>\n have to know have to know have to know have to know have to know have to know have to know have to know have to know have to know have to know have to know have to know have to know Apply online now.<\/p>\n (Source: Cash Ahenakew 2016: Grafting Indigenous Ways of Knowing Onto Non-Indigenous Ways of Being. The (Underestimated) Challenges of a Decolonial Imagination. In: International Review of Qualitative Research vol 9 no 3, 323-340, here: S. 325-326.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the poem “Academic Indian Job Description: Have To Know,” Cree scholar Cash Ahenakew describes his difficulties (and those of others) in adapting to the academic context and its expectations with his Indigenous subjectivity and corresponding values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[468,354],"tags":[398,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-8116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poetry","7":"category-texts","8":"tag-knowledge","9":"tag-native-americans-en"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"bunyad-small":false,"bunyad-medium":false,"bunyad-full":false,"bunyad-viewport":false,"bunyad-768":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"glokal e.V.","author_link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/author\/glokal\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"In the poem \"Academic Indian Job Description: Have To Know,\" Cree scholar Cash Ahenakew describes his difficulties (and those of others) in adapting to the academic context and its expectations with his Indigenous subjectivity and corresponding values.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwestern knowledge and education
\nplus the critique of
\nwestern knowledge and education<\/p>\n
\nindigenous ‘culture’ and education
\nplus the critique and the critique of the critique of
\nindigenous ‘culture’ and education<\/p>\n
\nhow to embody expected authenticity
\nand how to embody expected critique
\nof expected authenticity<\/p>\n
\nwhen and where to use indigenous literature and style
\nand when and where to use the Western canon and style
\nto build legitimacy and credibility for indigenous thought and experience<\/p>\n
\nwhen to vilify, to romanticize, to essentialize
\nwhen to apologize, to complexify, to compromise
\nwhen and who to be accountable to and why<\/p>\n
\nhow to reject modernity, how to be a modern Indian
\nhow to ignore contradictions
\nhow to deny incommensurabilities<\/p>\n
\nwhen and how to perform at the same time
\ncompetence, confidence, boldness, heroic rebelliousness
\nand humility, compliance and gratitude for the opportunity<\/p>\n
\nhow to respond to (or hide from)
\n‘allies’ seeking self-affirmation and redemption
\nthrough helping you and your community<\/p>\n
\nhow to be an intellectual, an activist, a therapist, and an entrepreneur
\nhow to improve retention, attrition, and social mobility
\nand how to stop exploitation and ecological disaster<\/p>\n
\nhow to educate ‘your people’, liberal allies, immigrants, rednecks, colleagues
\nhow to relate to gang members, business sponsors, elders, politicians
\nhow to speak with the crows, the trees, the sea, and the media<\/p>\n
\nlanguages lost and found of family, communities, earth, spirit
\nlanguages imposed of nation, property, individualism, competition
\nand institutional academic language of secular liberal humanism<\/p>\n
\nhow to indigenize and decolonize
\ndisciplines, protocols, ethics, and methodologies
\nto make critical research feel good for non-indigenous people<\/p>\n
\nhow to package all of this in a foreign English language
\nto convince top ranked journals and performance analysts
\nthat you, too, against all odds, have market value<\/p>\n
\nhow to live with the guilt of having credentials, a secure job
\nand the awareness of compliance with a rigged system
\nbuilt on the broken back and wounded soul of your family members<\/p>\n