"On Medicine Bundles, Fishmeal, and Sacred Land: Writing Native Transnationalism from American Settler States post-1968"

Global Brazil Lab - B189, Bay 5, Smith WarehouseCo-sponsored by the Global Brazil LabThis presentation considers a comparative, transnational interrogations through fiction of settler colonialism in the Americas post-1968 and argues that the entities deemed responsible for the "protection" of Native lives, livelihoods and histories in fact hold much of the responsibility for their attempted undoing. Indigenous perseverance under colonialist settler regimes - situated between the urgency for recognition and the urgency for sovereignty - exst not because of this protection but in spite of it.Please RSVP with Gustavo Furtado at gustavo.procopio.furtado@gmail.com.