Traveling Indigeneity and the Making of Global Theory
Global Indigenous studies is often reliant on Indigenous movements, or acts of “traveling,” that are dialogic, transgressive, and inter/national in their motives and trajectories. Two narratives that attest to the patterns and itineraries of Indigenous theory exist in the writings of Choctaw writer LeAnne Howe and Palestinian scholar Steven Salaita. Inspiring a world of connections, the authors journey across colonial boundaries, centering place and producing land-based insights on relationality and reciprocity. This presentation highlights Indigeneity, and the stories and theories it formulates through acts of travel, movement, and mutual solidarity, as a historical and continuing force. We must learn from it, but beyond that, use it as anti-colonial theory, language, and actions that can quite successfully unravel settler colonialism.
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