On the persistent defiance of the logic of imperialism ... My parallel universe 'self' intercepted my touchgraph while cruising my google alerts. AS NEO SAID TO THE ORACLE, "BUT, WHAT DOES IT MEAN?" Hey Nils and Theron...Per usual, I'm few beats late to the conversation. I would advise anyonewho is seriously committed to the larger structural uses of E-portfolios by contemporary students-- who by the way do not view the college classroom as their most significant 'center' of knowledge and tool acquisition, (providing one is inclined to view the technology and control over the production as the domain of liberatory education)--,to examine their assumptions about knowledge and power and the political will of the Indigenous peoples. Like it or not, Indigenous Peoples are re-shaping international law, rights regimes, and more borders than ever before--and this is increasingly relevant to e-portfolios. We need a new framework. Why such rigid parameters about