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This book illustrates a pathway for knowledge production to benefit from interweaving the seemingly disparate historical experiences of Indigenous Peoples and computer science education. The resulting practice of ancestral computing for sustainability holds the power to mitigate the destructive forces of the field, while extending the potential of traditionally underserved and unheard populations. Reimagining the field of computer science, interwoven with traditional lifeways, presents compelling new discoveries in research and harnesses the rich tapestries that are Indigenous populations. Returning healthy lifeways to a center stage long-occupied by tightly controlled, Eurocentric learning methods opens worlds of opportunity that have felt lost to time.

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This book illustrates a pathway for knowledge production to benefit from interweaving the seemingly disparate historical experiences of Indigenous Peoples and computer science education. The resulting practice of ancestral computing for sustainability holds the power to mitigate the destructive forces of the field, while extending the potential of traditionally underserved and unheard populations. Reimagining the field of computer science, interwoven with traditional lifeways, presents compelling new discoveries in research and harnesses the rich tapestries that are Indigenous populations. Returning healthy lifeways to a center stage long-occupied by tightly controlled, Eurocentric learning methods opens worlds of opportunity that have felt lost to time.

Table of Contents

1. Uprooting Systems of Colonization.- 2. Returning to Ourselves.- 3. Challenging Eurocentric Epistemologies.- 4. Critical Self-Consciousness for Collective Action in Social Commonplace: Building a Sustainable Environment for Planting Seeds of Hope, 2009-2010.- 5. Cultivating Computing as Activism: Historicizing Cultural Identities as Academic Practices, 2010-2011.- 6. Spreading Seeds of Hope from Student-Led Initiatives to Classroom Practices para el Vivir Comunitario, 2011-2012.- 

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Examines one of the most segregated fields in education, computer science, towards centering the experiences of Indigenous Peoples Argues that in order to create a sustainable and just world of producers and consumers, Indigenous struggles must be at the center of knowledge production in computer science Nurtures the interweaving of two seemingly disparate worlds to build Critical Ancestral Computing for Sustainability

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