Fall 2020 Growing up, I thought I had a good sense of how the Indian Wars played out. To my knowledge, the last battle fought in the Indian Wars was “The Battle of Wounded Knee.” There were early Army accounts that depicted the “battle” as heroic. I was wrong. My …
Fall 2020 In this radio show, I will connect the current COVID pandemic to the preceding Environmental Movements to save the Amazon Rainforest and the hostile, divisionist political climate in Brazil with the rise of far-right populist movements through the lenses of Indigenous digital militancy. I will introduce some activists …
Fall 2020 Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner is a writer and performer of Marshall Island ancestry. Kijiner was born in the Marshall Islands and was raised in Hawaii, and she currently lives in Majuro, the capital of Marshall Islands. Kijiner’s work specializes in storytelling, performance, and poetry. She has used her creative practice …
Fall 2020 History of Native American Voting Rights American democracy was built and predicated on the foundation of self-government. Hence, the authority of government in a democratic state is designed to be representative of the general will of the people. This “will” is then reaffirmed through periodic electoral processes which …
Fall 2020 “Radio Free Alcatraz” was a popular radio program broadcasted regularly during the occupation of Alcatraz which amplified diverse Native voices and shared information about the intentions, goals, and experiences of occupiers. Click on the image below to see the full cartoon.
Fall 2020 Mni Wiconi. This Lakota phrase, which translates to water is life, has taken on great meaning in the #NoDAPL movement in the U.S. (Estes 2017, 115). In 2014, Energy Transfer Partners applied to build a pipeline that would carry half a million barrels of crude oil through four …
Fall 2020 Ever since European settlers set foot upon America, they’ve been exploiting Indigenous people and their land for resources and economic gain. This all began in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase, when the United States purchased a large swatch of land from France without consulting any of the Indigenous …
Fall 2020 Original music by Palina Buchanan, Fall 2020 Native Americans continued to dance after the U.S. government banned religious dancing, changing traditions over time and utilizing dance as a multidimensional tool.
