4214 - Indigenous America: Aliens on our own Lands - Emotions of Citizenship and Genocide

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Native Nations and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas experience the full range of emotional relations, ranging from surviving genocide to tribal nation recognition, over the last 240 years, and 500 years of colonization. All Indigenous Scholars relate these experiences to U.S. policy constructs, nationhood, contemporary movements, Indigenous Canada and Mexico, identity, invisibility and dominant oppression. ASA 2018 in Philadelphia meets where a Constitutional Convention formed a new country where American Indians were excluded from participation as citizens or full nations, as fought over treaties until 1871, citizenship 1924, Indian reservations 20th century, sovereignty and contested identity through the 21st century movement at Standing Rock as Nations in resistance to ongoing dominance, neoliberalism, natural resource extraction, and racism, that make Indigenous people feel like we are Aliens on our own lands.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizers

• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University

• James V. Fenelon, (Dakota/Lakota) California State University-San Bernardino

Presider

• David G. Embrick, University of Connecticut

Individual Presentations

• Redefining Sovereignty from Indigenous Perspectives of Survivance - Manley Begay, (Navajo Nation) Northern Arizona University

• Real Indians: Policing Authentic Indigenous Identity - Dwanna L. McKay, (Mvskoke (Creek) Nation) Colorado College

• The Wall Isn't Beautiful: A Dene Nde' Perspective on the Numbed and Emotionally Manipulated Genocide Society - Margo Tamez, (Nde' Lipan Apache) University of British Columbia

Discussants

• Joseph Giovanetti, (Tolowa Dene-ei’) Humboldt State University

• James V. Fenelon, (Dakota/Lakota) California State University-San Bernardino