NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 42-68
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Beginning with the Guna understanding of “Abiayala” and the politics implicit in using the word to describe what is currently called South America, the author argues for a global Indigenous movement based in common experiences, worldview, and political standing.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 1-42
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Looks at strategies employed by the National Congress of American Indians, the National Indian Youth Council, and the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium in their efforts to combat racial stereotypes.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 54-71
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Describes Miranda’s tribal memoir as an act of resistance which disrupts archival and mainstream narratives around Indigenous nations, dispossession, and human-land relationships. Focuses of female voices and perspectives, and on narrative sovereignty.
Article explores the liminal position of mixed race Indigenous/non-Indigenous people in the Canadian context, discusses the polarity of Identity and the ways in which identity can be and is used to surveil and police Indigenous people in a settler society.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 43-86
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Looks at the circumstances which led to the Koontenai nation declaring war on the United States government in 1974, The tribe was federally recognized but had been given no land base nor received any monetary compensation.
Canadian Women Studies, vol. 33, no. 1-2, Women's Human Rights: Changing the World, 2018, pp. 204-210
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Discusses the importance of grassroots movements and social media to educate the general public about the impact of colonization and patriarchy in regards to violence against Indigenous women.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 117-133
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Interview with co-producer and co-writer of My Louisiana Love, a documentary which details the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the BP oil spills on her family and community.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 43, no. 4, Summer, 2018, pp. 929-954
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An argument against the use of femicide as means to analyze murdered Indigenous women, rather it must go beyond the radical feminist definition to an intersectional framework to make gender as a necessary but not a definitive analytical category.
Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy
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Author/Creator
Genevieve Fuji Johnson
pp. [25]-46
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An analysis of Indigenous women's activists role into the creation of an inquiry into the well beings of Indigenous women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and in exposes the flaws in the inquiry and the impact to changes they achieved. A chapter from Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy edited by Leah R. E. Levac and Sarah Marie Wiebe. To access chapter scroll down to page 25.
American Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4, December 2018, pp. 741-754
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Author discusses the violent social media response Tanya Tagaq received after having posted a photo of her daughter next to a harvested seal; uses the incident to illustrate how colonial violence disproportionately targets Aboriginal women.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, Summer, November 09, 2018, pp. 407-424
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Article presents the background, content and findings of the digital history project, Chicana/o Activism in the Southern Plains through Time and Space, revealing the Chicana/o Movement to be a decentralized patchwork of local movements that included the Southern Plains, and that emerged in multiple regions across the USA forming a national social justice movement.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 306-341
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Article examines the work of contemporary artists Leah Decter, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, and Caroline Monnet. Discusses the artists’ engagement with current discourse surrounding settler colonialism and their use of the arts to disrupt conceptualization of the Canadian state as inclusive and benevolent.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 1-9
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Discusses some of the sociopolitical issues and topics addressed in special issue including #NoDAPL, the cuts to the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), water sovereignty, regulation and distribution, and extractive practices.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 165-181
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Considers Potawatomie’s address at the 1893 World’s Fair, in which he used the platform to expose the realities of the U.S. Government Indian policy, as a rhetorical strategy of resistance and an attempt to garner sympathy from the public at large. Discusses the implications and potential fallout of Potawatomie’s move.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 10-35
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Examines author Leslie Marmon Silko’s post-1990 works, Almanac of the Dead, Sacred Waters, Gardens in the Dunes, and Oceanstory in the context of a growing focus on water scarcity and sovereignty; highlights Aboriginal and Native American perspective on the privatization of water for profit, and neocolonial and imperial interests.