Cultural Strengths to Persevere: Native American Women in Higher Education
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Stephanie J. Waterman
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Lorinda S. Lindley
Beginning with an overview of historical perspectives of Native American women, this article includes some discussion of values and practices of contemporary Native American women, data pertaining to Native American women’s participation in higher education, and an introduction of familial cultural capital, community cultural wealth, Native resiliency, and nation-building capital (Lindley, 2009). The women in this article come from two very distinct tribal communities: the Northern Arapaho and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). The women of both communities used culture, community, and family as foundations of their success in college. The concepts that make up these Native forms of capital are then connected to Native resiliency (Guillory, 2008), Native capital (Ward, 2005), and nation building.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editor's Note
- Editors’ Notes
- Article
- Cultural Strengths to Persevere: Native American Women in Higher Education
- The Rest of the Story: A Qualitative Study of Chinese and Indian Women’s Graduate Education Migration
- Refocusing College Choice: Women’s Reflections on Their Postsecondary Education Choices
- Strategies to Support Women in the Academic Physical Sciences: Reflections on Experiences and Efforts
- Women in Student Affairs: Past, Present, and Future Leaders
- Book Review
- Book Review. Stonewall’s Legacy: Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Students in Higher Education
- Book Review. Crossing Borders: International Women Students in American Higher Education
- Book Review. Women and Success: Professors in the UK Academy
