What is "waziyatawin"

Waziyatawin is a Dakota professor, author, and activist from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) in southwestern Minnesota. She splits her time between Minnesota and Victoria BC in Coast Salish territories.

She is a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples in the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria, and is recognized as a leading indigenous intellectual. Her research interests include indigenous women's roles in resisting colonialism, recovering indigenous knowledge, and truth-telling as part of restorative justice.