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The Indigenous Studies Group is creating a reading group for everyone interested in discussing the concept of Indigeneity and how it can be applied effectively to the most important problems faced by indigenous peoples across the globe. The group will be a regular forum for discussing texts exploring a specific theme related to Indigeneity, meeting monthly.
Our first session will focus on the experience of Indigeneity. Together, the three readings address Indigeneity as an identity anchoring individuals’ experience of their worlds, as well as the difficulties of navigating the complex problems that such an identity imposes on those who embrace it. Cadena and Starn summarise accelerating attempts to reconceptualize Indigeneity itself; J. Kēhaulani Kauanui relates her own experience of the implications of blood quantum rules for indigenous Hawaiians; and Blythe George describes her complicated efforts to retain her identity as a Yurok of Northern California while attending Dartmouth College in the USA. We strongly recommend reading at least one of these chapters.
- Marisol de la Cadena & Orin Starn. ‘Introduction’, in Indigenous Experience Today, edited by Marisol de la Cadena & Orin Starn (New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 1-33.
- J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008), ch. ‘Introduction: Got Blood?’
- Blythe George. ‘Bringing Back a Piece of the Sky’, in I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories, edited by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny & Melanie Benson Taylor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017), pp. 36-52.
If you have trouble accessing these readings via your institution, please get in touch with the organisers at indigenousstudiesgroup@gmail.com.
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You will be contacted within 48 hours of the event with the link for this event. Please be aware tickets will close an hour before the event.
