This article introduces the voices of Indigenous mentors, which have been overlooked in mentoring research. This study addressed how mentors understood their role in nurturing student competence, connection, and agency; key ingredients of self-determination. Indigenous mentors participated in conversational interviews, which were examined from traditional academic and pastoral perspectives and from the perspective of self-determination theory. Six themes emerged from the analysis: mentors as knowledge brokers; facilitators of belongingness; supportive and empowering, guides, self-managers and as enablers to help mentees become self-determined. Most of these themes align with previous literature on mentoring and add insight into a small but growing body of research findings on student mentors from Indigenous backgrounds. Notably, one of the themes, mentors as self-managers, has largely been neglected in research on mentoring involving students from Indigenous backgrounds. The implications for giving voice to Indigenous mentor views are discussed in the concluding section.