Advance Praise"Given the insufficient amount of existing research that has been conceptualized from the perspectives of Indigenous peoples, this delightful collection of papers furthers our thinking about the strengths and competencies that students develop in their own contexts and how such assets can effectively serve as bridges to learning. This place-based perspective is particularly useful in diverse Indigenous contexts where indicators of success must extend to broader notions of self-determination and nation building. The complex elements that support learning demand innovative approaches, and the approaches presented here are fine models for others seeking transformative change in mathematics education."- Sharon Nelson Barber, Culture and Language in Education, WestEd. California, USA"This book highlights multiple ways to re-story both mathematics education (through culturally responsive pedagogies) and understandings of colonization, mathematics, and Indigenous knowledges. In doing so, the reader is introduced to the promises, possibilities and struggles in coming to critically understand how meaningful mathematics education for Indigenous students and communities must be rooted in political, social, historical, linguistic, and cultural realities. The community- and place-based research in this book not only nudges the reader out of a complacent, colonialist view that “there is a one way to know the world mathematically,” but it draws one into a "radical hope" for a mathematics that is respectful, responsive, sustaining and revitalizing. To me, reading this book is an act of decolonization; one that demands the reader to listen, listen well."- Kathleen Nolan, Professor, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
