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A Weaving of Knowledges to Stand on Their Own
Drawing on Indigenous orality and collective roundtable conversations, this chapter examines what braiding Indigenous and Western knowledge asks of universities. It questions whether institutional reconciliation can support genuine collaboration without turning Indigenous Knowledge into another academic trend or source of appropriation.
Steinhauer, N., Johnson, P., Bruno, K., Winder, T., Winder, N. N., Johnson, P. R., Steinhauer-Hill, P., Chen, S., Flores Villalobos, M., Dancey, S., McCullough, D., & Moreiras Reynaga, D. K. (2026). IntechOpen.
- DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.1015288
Rising up in the 21st Century
This chapter follows how Blue Sky Research Lab uses podcasting, digital media, and social platforms to share Nêhiyawak Knowledge and lived experience. It considers technology as a tool for relationship-building, challenging stereotypes, and carrying Indigenous identity and teachings across generations.
Johnson, P. R., Moreiras Reynaga, D. K., Sartison, G., Chen, S., Flores Villalobos, M., Worth, D., McCullough, D., Hill, S., Louis, H., & Thompson, E. (2026).
- DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.1014813
“University Aunties”: Practices for Indigenous Scholars Navigating Academic Institutions
Grounded in Indigenous feminist experience, this chapter critiques how university decolonization and EDI initiatives can reproduce extractive systems. It offers seven practical strategies to help emerging Indigenous scholars protect their Knowledge, labour, relationships, and sense of self while navigating academic institutions.
Altamirano-Jiménez, I., & Johnson, P. (2025). In Dialogues on Decolonizing the University. Palgrave Macmillan.
- DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-94451-2_7
E-kawôtiniket 1876
This doctoral thesis traces Nêhiyaw law and governance through the collective memory of Nipisihkopahk. It brings Creation stories, Treaty, Ceremony, and Wâhkôtowin into conversation to show how kinship connects governance with land, family, livelihood, and miyo-pimâtisiwin, the good life.
Johnson, P. R. (2017). E-kawôtiniket 1876: Reclaiming Nêhiyaw Governance in the Territory of Maskwacîs through Wâhkôtowin (Kinship). Western University Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository.
The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology, 24(1)
Co-edited by Paulina Johnson and Jordon Munizzi, this issue gathers student scholarship across social, cultural, and archaeological anthropology. Its articles move from diaspora and communication to museum sampling, Indigenous methodologies, and the interpretation of material and cultural life.
Johnson, P. R., & Munizzi, J. (Eds.). (2016).
On the (In)Comparability of Indigenous Community-Based Research within University Merit Systems
From a Nêhiyawak, Four-Spirit perspective, this article challenges university merit systems that undervalue relationship-based community research. It proposes accountability, authenticity, intentionality, relationality, and reciprocity as a more meaningful way to understand the impact and responsibilities of Indigenous scholarship.
Johnson, P. R. (2024). Roots and Relations, 3(1), Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation.
- DOI: 10.3138/cjpe-2024-0010
Manitou Asinîy and the Strategies of Systemic Colonial Injustice
Centred on Manitou Asinîy, a living Sacred Being held by the Royal Alberta Museum, this autoethnographic case study examines classification and delay as strategies of colonial control. It also traces how refusal, persistence, and Indigenous women’s voices can support resurgence and a recentering of self.
Johnson, P. R., Wonneck, L. A., Flores-Villalobos, M., Morrow, J. A., & Guevara-Salamanca, J. (2024). International Journal of Canadian Studies.
- DOI: 10.3138/ijcs-2024-0002
The Nêhiyawak Nation through Âcimowina
This republished and revised article introduces Nêhiyawak intellectual traditions through language, oral narratives, ancestral Knowledge, and Four-Spirit perspectives. An author reflection revisits the 2015 text, corrects colonial terminology, and explains the responsibilities carried when sharing Nation-specific Knowledge.
Johnson, P. R. (2023). “The Nêhiyawak Nation through Âcimowina: Experiencing Four-Spirit Knowledge Through Oral Narratives.” The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology, 25(1), 190-208.
- DOI: 10.5206/uwoja.v25i1.16028
To My One Who Sits on the Rainbow
Written for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, this personal letter honours Dr. Johnson’s grandfather and reflects on residential-school trauma, Ceremony, love, and intergenerational healing. Rather than centring the state, it carries gratitude and care back to the family member whose life anchors the story.
Johnson, P. R. (2022). Electric Marronage, September 30.
No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous
This review considers Sheldon Krasowski’s challenge to the idea that Treaties One through Seven were land surrenders. It engages the book’s use of eyewitness and government records to show that First Nations understood the Treaties as agreements to share land while maintaining ongoing relationships and responsibilities.
Johnson, P. R. (2022). Review of No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous by Sheldon Krasowski. Journal of Native American and Indigenous Studies, 9(2), 124-126.
Mâmawinew [She/He Assembles Them]
Moving through sage, berries, memory, prayer, and the presence of ancestors, this piece presents Knowledge sharing as embodied and relational. It speaks to future Indigenous scholars about kinship, confidence, patience, and the generations of Knowledge carried within them.
Johnson, P. R. (2021). “Mâmawinew [She/He Assembles Them]: A Curation of Wahkomâkanak kiskeyitamowi, Ancestral Knowledge.” Electric Marronage, October 7.
Indigenous Knowledge Within Academia
This article compares Indigenous, decolonizing, and Nêhiyawak methodologies, asking where they support one another and where important tensions remain. It argues that research methods must be chosen with attention to the philosophical, spiritual, cultural, and Nation-specific foundations of the Knowledge being carried.
Johnson, P. R. (2016). “Indigenous Knowledge Within Academia: Exploring the Tensions That Exist Between Indigenous, Decolonizing, and Nêhiyawak Methodologies.” UWOJA, 24(1).
The Nêhiyawak Nation through Âcimowina
The original 2015 article introduces âcimowina as a living intellectual tradition through which Nêhiyawak values, teachings, warnings, and understandings of the world travel across generations. It positions oral narrative as both a culturally grounded methodology and a way for storytellers to retain authority over the Knowledge they share.
Johnson, P. R. (2015). “The Nêhiyawak Nation through Âcimowina: Experiencing Plains Cree Knowledge through Oral Narratives.” Totem/UWOJA, 23(1), 70-81.
The Auntie Dialogues: Volume III
The third collection of podcast transcripts is organised around the elemental Elders Iskotêw, Askiy, Nipiy, and Yôtin: Fire, Earth, Water, and Air. Across sixteen episodes, it invites readers into relearning, reflection, and renewed connection with the gifts and teachings that sustain life.
Johnson, P., Dancey, S., & Sartison, G. (Eds.). (2025). The Auntie Dialogues: Volume III. Special Issue, Socialist Studies, 19(2).
- DOI: 10.18740/SS27378
The Auntie Dialogues: Volume II
Volume II brings podcast conversations into print through episodes that interweave Indigenous feminism with community, family, scholarship, and lived experience. The collection invites readers, including Môniyâwak, into learning grounded in reciprocity, solidarity, humour, and new ways of knowing.
Johnson, P., Flores-Villalobos, M., & Wonneck, L. A. (Eds.). (2024). The Auntie Dialogues: Volume II. Special Issue, Socialist Studies, 18(1).
- DOI: 10.18740/ss27365
The Auntie Dialogues Special Issue
The first Auntie Dialogues volume presents sixteen scripts from The Auntie Is In. Through an Auntie’s directness, warmth, and humour, the collection challenges stereotypes while sharing Nêhiyawak stories, Ceremony, relationality, Creation teachings, and the learning and unlearning needed for decolonization and reconciliation.
Johnson, P., & Guevara Salamanca, J. (Eds.). (2023). The Auntie Dialogues Special Issue. Socialist Studies, 17(1).
- DOI: 10.18740/ss27356
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