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Gilbert, Matthew S. Darder, Antonia Gilbert, Matthew S. Anderson, James D. Emerson, Larry Davidson, Charlotte 2014-01-16T18:25:51Z 2014-01-16T18:25:51Z 2016-01-16T11:01:06Z 2013-12 2014-01-16T18:25:51Z 2013-12 This dissertation proposes a potential pathway to rethink how Diné matrilineal knowledge can work to inform a Diné female academic identity. In keeping with the decolonizing traditions of Indigenous scholars, I will use a Beautyway lens—as mediated by Diné traditional learning modalities—to explore how the narrations of three generations of Navajo rug weavers, Shimásáni (my maternal grandmother, Sally Yazzie), Shimáyázhí (my mother’s sister, Lena Yazzie), Shimá (my mother, Nora Wilkinson), and Shideezhi (my younger sister, Sallie Wilkinson), point to the contemporary criticality of the primacy of feminine agency—a heuristic and familial intelligence. To this end, I will engage the transformative possibilities that can dialogically emerge from a rewoven matrifocal understanding of the world, and its implications for conducting doctoral research, as well as how it informs institutional persistence as a Diné research doctorate. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-08-27T21:03:58Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 3 1_Davidson_Charlotte.doc: 3637248 bytes, checksum: e7bda9105f4154915bd1dbc389462523 (MD5) 2_Davidson_Charlotte.doc: 3637248 bytes, checksum: e7bda9105f4154915bd1dbc389462523 (MD5) Davidson_Charlotte.pdf: 2006522 bytes, checksum: 24961e24c1030f186a1515d2631393a7 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-01-16T18:25:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 Charlotte_Davidson.pdf: 2007452 bytes, checksum: b33d6e1165fd246e9afd30bb4ffff6c0 (MD5) 2_Davidson_Charlotte.doc: 3637248 bytes, checksum: e7bda9105f4154915bd1dbc389462523 (MD5) 1_Davidson_Charlotte.doc: 3637248 bytes, checksum: e7bda9105f4154915bd1dbc389462523 (MD5) license.txt: 4068 bytes, checksum: 9bca2967f08bf87bb9e87e5c190b203d (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by Seth Robbins (robbins.sd@gmail.com) on 2014-01-16T18:27:34Z Item is restricted until 2016-01-16T18:27:27Z Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:36:46-05:00 Original Data Group with Access Administrator Release Date: 2016-01-16 12:27:27 UTC Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 46922 on 2016-01-16T11:01:06Z. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/46903 en Copyright 2013 Charlotte Elizabeth Davidson Indigenous Decolonization Higher Education American Indian Traditional Knowledge In beauty, I walk: toward a maternal praxis of Diné decolonization text Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp 1760 Educational Policy Studies 0220 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Educ Policy Studies -UIUC 10KS0220PHD