Cultivating Enduring and Reciprocal Relationships in Academia

This article takes form following an exchange of letters in which the Chickasaw and Hopi authors reflected on Indigenous mentorship relationship higher education as embodiment a carved-out space for ways knowing being. They begin story their faculty mentor-doctoral mentee with memory mentee’s graduation from doctorate program gifting shawl. moment was both culminating rebirthing relationship, Indigenization institutional university hooding ceremony. The privilege gift paradigm based values care notions kinship. Together, they ask explore questions how such is created, enacted, sustained education. reflect practices cultivated, nurtured, through years admission leading up to doctoral ceremony, beyond.