Indigenous Politics Mini-Conference: Self-Definition is Self-Determination

Session Submission Type: Virtual Created Panel

Part of Mini-Conference

• Indigenous Politics Virtual Mini-Conference

Session Description

The second panel focuses on Indigenous political identity, which is shaped by varying experiences of sovereignty, colonialism, and racism. Also, Indigenous political identity has been the target of potent nation-state campaigns of subjugation and erasure. These papers consider how Indigenous peoples today define their political identity. Indigenous self-definition is an act of self-determination that engages and challenges the past and ongoing agendas of nation-states. With awareness of Indigenous epistemologies, these scholars deconstruct and reconstruct both quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Sub Unit

• Theme Panel

Cosponsor

• Related Groups / Indigenous Studies Network

Individual Presentations

• Voting Reservations: The Identity Politics of Land - Loren Collingwood, UC Riverside; Sean David Long, University of California, Riverside

• Towards a Decolonial Quantitative Social Science: Indigenous Self-Identification in the 2019 Native Hawaiian Survey - Ngoc Phan, Hawaii Pacific University

• Like Water Slipping Through Cracks in a Basket: Teaching and Learning Yurok at Hoopa Valley High School, California - Mneesha Gellman, Emerson College

• What are 'Indigenous Problems' Represented to be in the Long-term Care Policies in Taiwan? - Wasiq Silan, University of Helsinki

Chair

• Thomas Klemm University of Michigan

Discussant

• Kevin M. Bruyneel Babson College