Please join Dr. Jason Corwin for the screening of the documentary Defending Ohi:yo’ as well as other short videos highlighting Seneca environmental topics. Discussion will cover the vital importance of media production by Indigenous people.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Martineau as he shares his exploration of how indigenous resistances to colonialism and neoliberal capitalism have changed under globalization. His research pursues new pathways in indigenous resurgence through the creative arts.
Please join Nanibah Chacon (Diné and Xicana), a muralist and community engaged public works artist, as she talks about her current work which is based upon the insertion of indigenous presence into the colonized urban landscape. She will use imagery to provoke questions connecting us to landscape, traditions, and people.
When Indigenous peoples fight against giant telescopes or oil pipelines on sacred lands, we are not obstructing “progress” or “inventing traditions.” Such stereotypes affirm white capitalist heteropatriarchy in America by casting defiant Indigenous peoples as backwards-looking, trapped in a romanticized past, irrational, or criminal. This happens across the empire, from Mauna a Wākea to Oceti Sakowin, Iroquoia to Guahan: erasures, distortions, and mythmaking that trivialize and prevent Native survival abound.