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River Jackson-Paton, Ph.D.timbisha transformations
I read this riff at WPC14 and got several positive responses to it. I should have read it at the Native Science conference, too, but forgot to. It's about how I first realized that land I thought I really loved was someone else's homeland; very tricky! It was in my...
David Abram does it again…
I was sent this conversation between David Abram and Patricia Damery. It is extraordinary, really! The Environmental Crisis and the Psyche: A Conversation with David Abram and Patricia Damery
Indigenous research
When I was at Pitzer College, I was struck by the fantastic student posters many of which referred to 'classics' in Indigenous research methods. These include the one that started it all, Smith's 'Decolonizing methodologies.' Also included were Kovach's 'Indigenous...
Piestewa Peak
Piestewa Peak was mentioned in my decolonizing environmentalism workshops, in the context of how changing place names is a cultural survival (aka Indigenous rights) issue for Native peoples and is also an environmental issue. From National Native News...
Slides and flyers from WPC14 are posted
The slides and flyers from WPC14 have been added here. Thanks for all of the interest and support.
And WOW! Thank you, Pitzer College!!
As if my experience at WPC wasn't enough, it was topped off extraordinarily at the Native Science Conference at Pitzer College. Wow! Remarkable! Incredible! So welcoming, transformative, powerful. And the students! Wow! I will post more (substantive) details, but I...
Wow! Thank you, WPC!
Such a wonderful, albeit much too short, time in Seattle at WPC14. Always so moved by the spirit of inclusion, learning, openness, and transformation that everyone brings. I was honored to have such wonderful participation in my sessions. And a special thanks to my...
almost forgot about yoga?
Funny all of this academic, conference preparation and I almost neglected to mention that I will be completing my 200 hour yoga teacher training today! Going forward I'll be incorporating that into my work as well. Thus, another connection between my body and the body...
White privilege conference workshop sessions
I was honored to do two sessions at this year's White Privilege Conference 14 in Seattle. The first was with friend and colleague Susan Abdul Rahman from Sonoma County, CA: Locating our selves amidst the wealth: Creative approaches to intersectionality for personal...
ethnoautobiography textbook
My work with Jürgen Kremer on an undergraduate textbook on ethnoautobiography—Stories of Decolonization, Autobiography, Ethnicity: Unlearning Whiteness and Reclaiming Participatory Senses of Place and Society: An Ethnoautobiographical Workbook—is getting closer to...