Book Event - From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis

Hear from the editors and contributors about what it means to theorize and practice in American Indian Studies

In this volume, contributors demonstrate the real-world application of Indigenous theory to the work they do in their own communities and how this work is driven by urgency, responsibility, and justice—work that is from the skin.

In From the Skin, contributors reflect on and describe how they apply the theories and concepts of Indigenous studies to their communities, programs, and organizations, and the ways the discipline has informed and influenced the same. They show the ways these efforts advance disciplinary theories, methodologies, and praxes. Chapters cover topics including librarianship, health programs, community organizing, knowledge recovery, youth programming, and gendered violence. Through their examples, the contributors show how they negotiate their peoples’ knowledge systems with knowledge produced in Indigenous studies programs, demonstrating how they understand the relationship between their people, their nations, and academia.

SPEAKERS
Editors:
Jerome Jeffery Clark, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Elise Boxer, Associate Professor, University of South Dakota

Contributors:
Brittani Orona, UC President's and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Cruz (Zoom)
Eric Hardy, Program Coordinator, Labriola National American Indian Data Center
Alex Soto, Director and Assistant Librarian, Labriola National American Indian Data Center

Hybrid Event
In Person:
Hayden Library (Labriola) Room 204
Virtual:
https://asu.zoom.us/j/83215452197