UO Today with Michelle Jacob

Michelle M. Jacob, an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation and Professor of Indigenous Studies and Director of the Sapsik’ʷałá (Teacher) Education Program in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon. She also serves as affiliated faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Environmental Studies Program. Jacob is author of Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing (published in 2013) and Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (published in 2016). She co-edited, with Stephany RunningHawk Johnson, On Indian Ground: A Return to Indigenous Knowledge-Generating Hope, Leadership and Sovereignty through Education in the Northwest, published in 2019. Her latest books are, The Auntie Way: Stories Celebrating Kindness, Fierceness, and Creativity and Huckleberries and Coyotes: Lessons from Our More than Human Relations, both published in 2020.