Academic writing is a genre in of itself, one that can challenge prevailing modes of sharing knowledge in Native and Indigenous families and communities. Often Native and Indigenous thinkers in academia struggle with writing for reasons that pertain to our experiences of colonization and social marginalization. Understanding writing as an experience of thinking-on-paper and of relating to knowledge helps surface writing techniques and methods that are particularly helpful for thinkers bearing histories of oppression. Such techniques include methods of grounding oneself, creating personal archives, poetic ideation, epistolary practice, generating glossaries and vocabularies, and dialogic writing. The more we write, the more precise our thinking. Through reading and supporting each other’s writing, we clarify and co-create Indigenous ways of knowing for future generations.
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