Red Tawks | American Indian Studies (AIS)

2021 - 2022

Joshua Whitehead

Making Love with the Land

Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1)

English and International Indigenous Studies Departments

University of Calgary

Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 4:00 – 5:30 pm PST

Available on the AIS Red Tawks YouTube Channel.

BOOK LAUNCH AND DISCUSSION

Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 1:00 – 2:30 pm PST

Available on the AIS Red Tawks YouTube Channel.

Hokulani Aikau (Kanaka Maoli), University of Victoria, Moderator

Joanne Barker (Lenape), San Francisco State University

Audra Simpson (Mohawk), Columbia University

Anne Spice (Tlingit), X University

Book Page Link

Dr. Alex Wilson

Queering Indigenous Land-Based Education

Opaskwayak Cree Nation

Professor and Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre

University of Saskatchewan

Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 1:00 – 2:30 pm PST/3:00 – 4:30 pm CST

Available on the AIS Red Tawks YouTube Channel.

Alex Wilson’s website: https://words.usask.ca/alexwilson/

"Queering Indigenous Land-Based Education During Covid-19" (Article link).

2020 - 2021

Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Decolonizing Methodologies

Thursday, February 11 -- 4:00-5:30 pm PST

Available on the AIS Red Tawks Youtube Channel.

Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou iwi), Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Author of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999).

Food Sovereignty:

A Discussion in Honor of Jessica Mae Orozco

Cassandra Freeman and Melissa K. Nelson

Tuesday, March 2 -- 4:00-5:30 pm PST

Available on the AIS Red Tawks Youtube Channel.

Cassandra Freeman (Spirit Lake Sioux), Co-Founder/Owner of Anatolian Farms in Southwest Colorado, Cultivating Organic Hemp and Vegetables (B.A. in AIS at SFSU, 2012).

Melissa K. Nelson (Anishinaabe/Métis [Turtle Mountain Chippewa]), Professor of Indigenous Sustainability, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University (AIS faculty 2002-2020). Contributor and editor, Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability (2018).

Abolition and Settler Colonialism: On Corporate-State-Police Entanglement

Shiri Pasternak

Thursday, April 22 -- 11:00-12:15 pm PST

Available on the AIS Red Tawks YouTube Channel.

Shiri Pasternak, Research Director at Yellowhead Institute and Assistant Professor in Criminology at Ryerson University. Her book, Grounded Authority, is an in-depth critique of the federal land claims policy in Canada from the perspective of Algonquin law, and was published in 2017. She writes about resource extraction, Crown-First Nations fiscal relations, and legal problems of colonialism.

This World is a Wound

Billy-Ray Belcourt

Thursday, April 29 -- 4:00-5:30 pm PST

Available on the AIS Red Tawks YouTube Channel.

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. A 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, he earned his PhD in English at the University of Alberta. He was also a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and holds an M.St. in Women's Studies from the University of Oxford and Wadham College. In the First Nations Youth category, Belcourt was awarded a 2019 Indspire Award, which is the highest honor the Indigenous community bestows on its own leaders.

Reflections in the Time of COVID

Special to Red Tawks: Mask-Making by Gabriela Segovia-McGahan

2019 - 2020

The 50th from the Perspective of Alaska Native Studies: A Roundtable Discussion (pdf)

Available at the AIS Red Tawks YouTube channel.

Wednesday, September 25, 2:30-4:00 pm · Ethnic Studies Building 116

Betty Parent (Deg Xit'an), Professor Emeritus of American Indian Studies, SFSU
Shari Huhndorf (Yup’ik), Professor, Native American Studies, UC Berkeley
Jessica Bissett Perea (Dena’ina), Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, UC Davis