“We’re Still Here”—The Journey of Three American Indian Recruiters

This chapter celebrates three Native women as creators of knowledge within the undergraduate admission space at a four-year university. Their identity-based experiences from their own K-20 educational journeys assisted them in navigating the university in service as Native American recruiters. The focus of the chapter will highlight challenges that emerged from the participants’ stories on how they experienced and decolonized the academic space. My positionality as an Indigenous woman and a student affairs professional at the university, as well as one of the participants, informs this study, including how I interacted with each participant and used particular methods. Importantly, my positionality influenced my decision to use both Indigenous and qualitative research methods to explore the experiences of these women and their reflections on that experience and to celebrate the strength of Indigenous women as cultural knowledge brokers and storytellers within a university admission office.