Aesthetics of Indigenous Affinity: Traveling from Chiapas to Palestine in the Murals of Gustavo Chavez Pavon
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Amal Eqeiq
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 152-165
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Essay in which the author summarizes a series of interviews they conducted with Zapatista cultural promoter and artist Gustavo Chávez Pavón; considers how the murals speak to Indigenous solidarity between Mexico and Palestine, and to similarities across the Global South.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 97-102
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Discusses three themes that emerged from “Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways” issue of American Indian Culture and Research Journal:
(1) structural genocide in settler-colonial states' attempts at deracination;
(2) Indigenous peoples' agency with regard to anti-normalization; and
(3) decolonial resistance outside of imposed settler-colonial binaries.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 111-148
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Discusses the way in which some members of the Society of American Indians (SAI) advocated for a model of “Americanization” of Indigenous people that allows for the “performance of both American and Native allegiances,” and enfranchised Indigenous peoples as full citizens.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 170-207
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Discusses Winnemucca’s 1883 book, Life among the Piutes, and her advocacy work on behalf of the Piutes; focuses on the rhetorical strategies and political positioning Winnemucca uses to represent her people and their interests to settler publics and government officials.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, January 2019, p. Article 2
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Explores the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry (MMIWG), and questions the exclusion of Indigenous males. Discusses the need for a more comprehensive and holistic model of inquiry that honours the voices of Indigenous communities.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 183-202
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Article describes the history, the decolonizing practices, and the publications of the tribally owned and operated press in the United States; connects the press to national cultural revitalization efforts.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism, 2019, pp. 1-40
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A discussion of Indigenous feminist politics and the relationship between Indigenous women and water using the Flint water crisis and NoDAPL action at Standing Rock to illustrate.
Author combines academic theory and personal experience at the Oceti Sakowin, Standing Rock water protectors' camp to discuss the phenomenon of protest camps and their social, political and educational characteristics.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 39-56
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Author investigates the colonial violence and race laws in El Salvador in the 1930s, and considers them as a form of terror employed by governing institutions for social control.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 53, no. 1, Winter, 2019, pp. 27-47
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Examines the discourse around two different contested pipeline projects; discusses rhetorical elements including the difference between “claimed” and “government sanctioned” spaces, and whether the perspectives are consistent with or counter to mainstream perspectives. Highlights the differences in worldviews, understandings of cause and effect, and conceptualizations of time and space and the role these differences play.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 74-100
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Uses Elizabeth Archuleta’s (Yaqui) “ethos of responsibility” as a framework for considering the #NoDAPL Movement; discusses the relationships between Indigenous women water protectors, Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous rhetorics, and Dakota/Lakota/Nakota history and worldviews.
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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 31-53
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Builds on Linda Tuhiwai Smith's short essay "Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects," and in acknowledgement of the essay and its 20th anniversary offers four more projects specific to Native American Humanities:
• Continuing
• Reknowing
• Sociologizing
• Valuing
Five-part documentary series about the Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe Nation's battle to build a road after their community was forcibly relocated and cut off from the mainland so that water could be supplied to the city of Winnipeg.
Related material:
Mini-Lesson.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter, 2019, pp. 101-132
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Examines how, between 1900 and the 1930s, some of the female students at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon were able to advocate for and affect change in their curriculum and in the limitations on their access to education.
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.
Discussion about band Gyibaaw’s song "Gyitwaalkt", which expresses “warrior-ness” through traditional language, instrumention and heavy reverb, and the ‘audiopolitics’ of the genres of metal and black metal.
Audio File.
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 174-198
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Three case studies of Indigenous opposition to state-sanctioned resource development projects: the Winnemem Wintu efforts to stop the proposed raise of Shasta Dam; the Maidu Summit’s work to regain ownership of former Pacific Gas & Electric company land; and the Pit River Tribe’s struggle to protect the sacred Medicine Lake Highlands.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change, and Environmental Stewardship, April 2018, p. Article 7
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Argues that Western governments are faced with two choices: meaningful engagement with the principle free, prior and informed consent or facing large-scale shutdowns from alliances of Indigenous peoples, environmentalists and concerned citizens.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, January 2019, p. Article 1
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Discusses outcomes of an seven-week participatory activity program for First Nations and Métis women and girls. Participants were given an opportunity to discuss the impact of trauma on adults' abilities to model healthy adult behaviours and life skills to their children; also considers ways to make positive change.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 11-26
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Engages the works and practices of Indigenous mapmakers throughout history; highlights the issues of nation, state, relationship to the land, resistance to colonial occupation, and epistemology; asserts technological and theoretical contributions of Indigenous cartographers; calls for an increase for cartographic training in Indigenous communities.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 104-131
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Author considers different cases of Indigenous resistance; offers a critique of the process of settler-colonial nationhood citing Audra Simpson’s assertion in Mohawk Interruptus that “continued Indigenous defense undermines and corrupts the absolutism of settler-colonial nationhood”
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 1-10
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Editors of the special issue, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, introduce the issue and discuss the movement towards international Indigenous solidarity.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 135-157
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In this literary criticism article, the author deconstructs the colonial narrative practice of portraying a place or space as a wasteland and as uninhabited in order to justify extractive practices and describes Indigenous narrative strategies of resistance.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism, 2019, pp. 55-68
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Reflecting on her own personal experiences, the author challenges the popular stereotype of voiceless traumatized Indigenous females that is perpetuated by the media, academia and even Indigenous advocacy groups. She asserts that Indigenous women survivors can be empowered as a healing force for others.
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.
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 1-18
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Introduction to the special issue “Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water,” discusses water as a fundamental piece in decolonization and as central to autonomy, sovereignty, resistance, and to the survival of Indigenous nations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 1-10
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Introduces this issue of the journal; stresses the issue’s focus on settler colonial discourses which racialize, regulate and dismiss Indigenous cultures, ontologies, social/spiritual practices, and bodies. Notes the resulting effect of dispossession and depoliticization of Indigenous peoples.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 339-364
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Article analyzes the narrative presented on the Homeland Security t-shirt [Graphic tee which has the words “Homeland Security” emblazoned above an image of Geronimo with three fellow Apache warriors and the words “Fighting Terrorism since 1492” located below the photograph]. Discusses how this narrative forms a rhetoric of critique and resistance.
Justice for Colten: Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Statement of Solidarity
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Author/Creator
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC)
BC Studies, no. 197, Spring, April 24, 2018, pp. 7-8
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Expresses outrage at the not-guilty verdict in the murder trial of Gerald Stanley, and solidarity with Colten Boushie’s family. Chiefs also call for an appeal of the verdict and an inquiry into the way the case was managed by and in the justice system.
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.
Looks at the culture of the area prior to the illegal evictions in 1984, history of advocacy by and for sex trade workers in Vancouver, and the authors’ struggle to secure reparations, an apology and a permanent memorial. Also discusses these issues in the context of ‘reconciliation’ and the consequences of racialization and criminalization.
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 113-127
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Curators of the exhibition Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories describe project which brought together art, activism, history, Indigenous youth, and the wider public to "amplify the artist’s insistence that all of us consider our collective responsibilities to this earth".
Journal of Indigenous Research, vol. 7, no. 1, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women , 2019, p. Article 2
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Profiles activities of two post-secondary students. The discussion includes motivations, tactics and what can be learned by other Indigenous student activists.
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.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 26, no. 2, The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health’s Partnership River of Life, 2019, pp. 172-176
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In this editorial article the author discusses Indigenous rights and Indigenous resistance to colonization and considers the other articles in this journal issue in the context of resistance and sovereignty.