Graduate Student, Information School
PhD Candidate
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Cheryl Metoyer
Raya Fidel Maria Elena Garcia David Levy |
About
I study the evolution of information and technology and the impacts in Indigenous and tribal communities. I also study Native ways of knowing as forms of Indigenous resistance and endurance.
I am a member of the Indigenous Information Research Group at the University of Washington Information School. Our approach is grounded in Indigenous methodologies, nurtured by a critical reading of Western epistemologies in light of both our own tribal ways of knowing, as well as the broader Native American and global Indigenous experience. As a group, we work together to raise the level of discourse to theory.
The work that I do--sharing knowledge with students, academics, policy-makers, and tribal community members about information, technology, and knowledge--requires an understanding of information and technology; the practical functions of information institutions such as libraries, archives, and museums; the critical geopolitics of Indigeneity; and Indigenous North American and Western philosophies of science.
The end goal of the work of the Indigenous Information Research Group is contribution to the flourishing of Native nations and Indigenous peoples.
