Indigenous activism as well as Indigenous literature highlight important
connections between environmental issues, questions of sovereignty, and
colonial histories in North America. “Pollution is not a manifestation
or side effect of colonialism,” writes geographer Max Liboiron (Red
River Metis/Michif), “but is rather an enactment of ongoing colonial
relations to Land” (2021, 6). Thus understood, extraction and pollution
need to be seen in connection to other process of colonial domination
and displacement in North America; such connections touch upon different
conceptions of citizenship, belonging, and kinship and provide a
framework for thinking about the ethical, political, cultural, and
economic conflicts where they play out.
In this class, we will look at how Indigenous writers address these
complex intertwinements. We will discuss literary examples from the
1990s to the present, ranging from poetry, for instances by Natalie Diaz
(Akimel O'odham), Craig Santos Perez (Chamoru), or Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
(Marshall Islander), and short prose, e.g., by Richard Van Camp (Dog
Rib) or Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe). In addition, we will look at Marie
Clements’ (Metis) play Burning Vision (2003) and the novel Solar Storms
(1997) by Linda Hogan (Chickasaw).
Shorter texts will be provided on Digicampus. Please get a print copy of
Clements’ play and Hogan’s novel.
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