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Paul M. Robertson is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oglala Lakota College. Along with two other Social Science faculty, he is responsible for developing and delivering a newly minted B.A. degree in Social Science. He teaches courses ranging from disciplinary staples like Introduction to Social Science and Social Science Theory to courses that have been developed in response to local interest and needs. The latter include Genocide and Colonization, Decolonization and Liberation, Sovereignty and Nation Building, Lakota Social Organization, War in Vietnam and Iraq, and Participatory Action Research.
An important aim of the Social Science program is to challenge students to assume leadership roles in their communities, both during their course of study, and after graduation. His teaching philosophy is linked to that aim, drawing on John Dewey's experiential tradition and Paulo Freire's dialogic approach. His publications include Power of the Land: Identity, Ethnicity, and Class among the Oglala Lakota (Routledge, 2002), and "Indigenizing Evaluation Research: How Lakota Methodologies Are Helping Raise the Tipi in the Oglala Sioux Nation," (American Indian Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2004). He is currently working on a manuscript detailing the ongoing struggle of Lakota and Dakota peoples to assert control over their land and resources.
He has been involved in a number of organizing efforts involving land, domestic violence, and resource claims on and off of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Oglala Lakota College students have been active participants in a number of those efforts. The Participatory Action Research course is a springboard for ongoing student involvement as is the Service Learning Project at OLC, for which he is the Principal Investigator.
Report to the Community of Manderson by the Fall 2008 Introduction to Social Science class of the Wounded Knee College Center.
