Indigenous Studies

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From Enron to Evo: Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia

“Throughout the Americas, a boom in oil, gas, and mining development has pushed the extractive frontier deeper into indigenous territories. Centering on a long-term study of Enron and Shell’s Cuiabá pipeline, From Enron to Evo traces the struggles of Bolivia’s indigenous peoples for self-determination over their lives and territories”

University of Arizona Press, 280 pages

Author
Derrick Hindery
Publication
2013
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The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms

"Incorporating an international scope of essays, this volume reaches beyond traditional national or euroamerican boundaries to locate North American Indigenous modernities and modernisms in a hemispheric context.

Author
Kirby Brown
Stephen Ross
and Alana Sayers
Publication
2022

Spotlight on Native Ecologies and Fire Management

Pictured above, from left, are Joe Scott, David G. Lewis, and Kari Marie Norgaard. Photos by Jack Liu.

 

On April 25, 2023, CSWS hosted “Native Ecologies,” a panel discussion on Indigenous histories and approaches to fire management, knowledge production, and ecological stewardship. 

Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance Book Cover

Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance 

"While Native Hawaiian artists, activists, scholars, and other performers have labored to educate diverse publics about the complexity of Indigenous Hawaiian identity, ongoing acts of violence against Indigenous communities have undermined these efforts. In this multidisciplinary work, Teves argues that Indigenous peoples must continue to embrace the performance of their identities in the face of this violence in order to challenge settler-colonialism and its efforts to contain and commodify Hawaiian Indigeneity."

University of North Carolina Press, 240 pages

Author
Stephanie “Lani” Teves
Publication
2018
Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools Book Cover

Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools

This book examines the cultural, social, and political terrain of Indigenous education by providing accounts of Indigenous students and educators creatively navigating the colonial dynamics within public schools. Through a series of survivance stories, the book surveys a range of educational issues, including implementation of Native-themed curriculum, teachers’ attempts to support Native students in their classrooms, and efforts to claim physical and cultural space in a school district, among others.

Author
Leilani Sabzalian
Publication
2020
Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action Book Cover

Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action

"Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon have made their way up and down the Klamath River. Indigenous management enabled the ecological abundance that formed the basis of capitalist wealth across North America. These activities on the landscape continue today, although they are often the site of intense political struggle. Not only has the magnitude of Native American genocide been of remarkable little sociological focus, the fact that this genocide has been coupled with a reorganization of the natural world represents a substantial theoretical void.

Author
Kari Marie Norgaard
Publication
2019