MINISOTA MAKOCE: OCCUPIED TERRITORY with Waziyatawin

This presentation will examine the historical and ongoing occupation of Minnesota and the devastating consequences for both the land and Minnesota’s Original People, the Dakota Oyate (Nation). It will further explore the possibility of a liberated homeland and future for Dakota people in the context of the collapse of industrial civilization.       

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10 AT 5:30 

JOHN B DAVIS LECTURE HALL, RUTH STRICKER DAYTON CAMPUS CENTER

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Waziyatawin is a Wahpetunwa Dakota from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) in southwestern Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in American History from Cornell University in 2000. Waziyatawin currently holds the Indigenous Peoples Research Chair in the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Her interests include projects centering on Indigenous approaches to decolonization such as truth-telling and reparative justice, Indigenous women and resistance, the recovery of Indigenous knowledge, and the development of liberation strategies for Indigenous communities. She is the author or co/editor of five volumes including : Remember This!: Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives; Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities; For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook; In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21^st Century; and, her most recent volume, What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland.

After the event, stick around for a post-talk discussion on settler privilege!

SPONSORED BY:  OPPOSITION TO WAR  & OCCUPATION, THE MACALESTER PEACE & JUSTICE COMMITTEE, PROUD INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FOR EDUCATION, AND MACALESTER HUMANITIES AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES DEPARTMENTS