By Richard White August 17, 2016 This spring, the US Congress passed a unanimous resolution condemning ISIS for its genocide against Yazidis, Christians, and Shiites. “Naming these crimes is important,” Secretary of State John Kerry said after the vote, “but what is essential is to stop them.” It’s far too late to stop the genocidal … Read more
Chairman Dave Archambault II Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Building 1 North Standing Rock Ave Fort Yates, ND 58530 August 17, 2016 Dear Chairman Archambault, I am writing to express the support of the American Indian Studies Center (AISC) at UCLA for the historic struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline. … Read more
Chairman Dave Archambault II Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Building 1 North Standing Rock Ave Fort Yates, ND 58530 August 17, 2016 Dear Chairman Archambault, I am writing to express the support of the American Indian Studies Center (AISC) at UCLA for the historic struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline. … Read more
Ready to order an individual article (PDF) online? Ready to order your print copy online? To pay by check, click here. Close American Indian Culture and Research Journal: Vol. 40, No. 1 (2016) Settler Colonialism and the Legislating of Criminality Guest Editor: Luana Ross In Memoriam: Patrick Wolfe (February 18, 2016) by Mishuana Goeman Introduction … Read more
Native American student finds way back after alcoholism, homelessness Rebecca Kendall | June 08, 2016 One night in 2010, Kevin Hale pushed a shopping cart loaded with six gallons of vodka and a couple of cases of beer to a railway bridge in Pico Rivera, California. “I was going to go up there and drink … Read more
By Alan Taylor May 27, 2016 The state of sunshine and pleasure is drenched in the blood of Indians, the victims of mass killings. These peaked between 1846, when Americans conquered California from Mexico, and 1873, when they snuffed out the last group resistance by natives in the state. The slaughter of California’s Indians was … Read more
Congratulations to Angela Robinson (Wito clan of Chuuk, Micronesia), an ABD student in the UCLA Gender Studies program, winner of the Summer Institute on Global Indigeneities (SIGI) competition! Robinson will be representing UCLA in June 2016 at the University of Washington where the Summer Institute on Global Indigeneities (SIGI) will be hosted. SIGI is a … Read more
Click here for the Spanish version. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 2016 Urgent Forum: The Murder of Lenca Activist Berta Cáceres and the future of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Rights in Honduras American Indian Studies Center UCLA Contact: Dr. Shannon Speed Phone: (512) 470-0341 Email: sspeed@aisc.ucla.edu On April 8, 2016 an Urgent Forum organized by the … Read more
American Indian Culture and Research Journal: Vol. 40, No. 1 (2016) Settler Colonialism and the Legislating of Criminality Guest Editor: Luana Ross In Memoriam: Patrick Wolfe (February 18, 2016) by Mishuana Goeman Introduction by Luana Ross Articles (click on the links below to view abstracts) The Violent Legacies of the California Missions: Mapping the … Read more
The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies By Patrick Wolfe The essays in this volume confront the assimilationist agendas in settler-colonial states around the world that seek to erase the distinct histories and current status of Indigenous peoples as sovereign peoples. In the introduction, editor Patrick Wolfe provocatively asks whether the repudiation of binarism … Read more