Indigenous Challenges to the State: Organization and Policy Opposition

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel examines Indigenous resistance and opposition to external policy threats to Native people. By drawing on policy examples including termination, water, and mining, from diverse Indigenous communities, this panel provides insight into different approaches to resist the imposition of state policy on Native communities.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Indigenous Studies Network

Individual Presentations

• As Long as the Waters Flow: Native American Water Policy in Oklahoma - Christine Pappas, East Central University

• Resource Extraction and Rentier State in the Making of Everyday Exclusion - Nikas Kindo, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Chair

• Richard C. Witmer Creighton University

Discussants

• Andrew A. Szarejko Naval Postgraduate School

• Raymond Orr The Univeristy of Oklahoma