PUBLICATIONS

Scholarly Work

• Cultivating Wellbeing by Advancing Indigenous Perspective of Autism, NZCER, contracted book, (Yellowhorse, Nafatali & Tapera, forthcoming, 2027)

• Special Issue Disability and Indigeneity, Wicazo Sa Review, Guest Editor (March 2026)

• Indigenous Worldbuilding and Disability: The Teachings of Female Rain, Wicazo Sa Review (March 2026)

• Indigeneity and Disability: Introduction, Wicazo Sa Review (March 2026)

• Disability through Indigenous Epistemology, Encyclopaedia for Social Justice in Education, Bloomsbury Publishers, (forthcoming 2026)

• Decolonizing the "decolonizing" Work of Non-Indigenous Collaborators, Diversifying and Decolonizing Research Methods SAGE Online Resources, SAGE Publishers (2024)

• Indigenous Methodologies: Politics of the Archive and Relational Ethics of Storytelling, Diversifying and Decolonizing Research Methods SAGE Online Resources, SAGE Publishers (2024)

• Disability and Indigeneity: Community Care of our Ancestors, Disability Visibility Project, (2023)

• Looking from Niłtsa’ bii’áád: A Diné Perspective of Disability and Ontologies of Being, PhD dissertation, (2022)

• Disability and Indigenous Resistance: Mapping Value Politics in the time of COVID-19, Alternative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, (2022)

• Unschooling and Indigenous Education, Humanities, Special Issue: Acts of Liberation, (2021), co-authored with Noah Romero, PhD

• ‘Disability’ through Diné Relational Teachings: Diné Educational Pedagogy and the Story of Early Twilight Dawn Boy, Wicazo Sa Review, John Hopkins University Press, (2020)

• My Tongue is a Mountain: Land, Belonging and the Politics of Voice, Genealogy, Special Issue: Critical Autoethnography (2020)

• The Heart of K’é: Transforming Diné Special Education and Unsettling the Colonial Logics of Disability, Master’s thesis University of New Mexico, online Vault (2018)

PODCASTS

Disability, Value Politics & Indigenous Resistance, Wósdéé Podcast, Spotify, (2022)

Colonial Disparities and Neurodiversity, WAI Indigenous Words and Ideas Podcast, Apple, (2020).