Indigenous Quotient/Stalking Words are two scholarly essays by the acclaimed academic, Juan Gómez-Quiñones, that begin by saying that: "American Indian ancestries and heritages ought to be integral to K-12 curriculums and university explorations and graduate expositions for obvious reasons – contemporary universalist understandings...The Indigenous voice matters, yesterday and today, in substantive pedagogical and phisophical discourses."