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Reconceptualizing Indigeneity Within The Fraternity And Sorority Community, Robin Zape-Tah-Hol-Ah Minthorn, Natalie Rose Youngbull, James D. Wagnon, Amber Silverhorn-Wolfe

Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice

The purpose of this article provides fraternity and sorority communities with an understanding of the impact of a Native American sisterhood on the cultivation in how it conceptualized itself, its centering an Indigenous structure, and how it affirms the women who join through building relationality. Through the first research inquiry of a Native American sisterhood, the findings reveal/highlight how the sisterhood has centered Indigeneity in its conception to how it lives today. Fraternity and sorority communities need to shift their culture to honor Indigenous ways of being.