CONTRIBUTOR:

Polly Hyslop

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Indigenous Studies

INSTITUTION:

University of Alaska Fairbanks

BIOGRAPHY:

Polly Hyslop is an assistant professor for the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is from Upper Tanana Dineh (Athabascan) and Scottish ancestry. She was born at a fish camp located near the village of Northway in the interior region of Alaska and grew up in Galena and Tanana, villages along the Yukon River. She serves on the Peacemaking Advisory Initiative for Native American Rights Fund. Her doctoral research focused on the Tlingit-based design of Circle Peacemaking in Kake, Alaska, a remote Tlingit community in southeast Alaska. She teaches classes related to Indigenous Dispute Systems Design, research methods in Native communities and documenting Indigenous knowledge. Her interest includes the role of change-makers as volunteers in revitalizing language and local community dispute resolution processes in Indigenous communities in order to maintain and restore balance, healing and safety in Indigenous communities.