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What is Critical Indigenous Studies and Why Does it Matter? Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Ph.D. University of New Mexico Remembering Our Grandmothers Tahwoojitei To move under ones own power Only way to accomplish a task is to expend

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What is Critical Indigenous Studies and Why Does it Matter?

Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Ph.D. University of New Mexico

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Remembering Our Grandmothers

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Ta’hwooji’tei

  • To move under one’s own power
  • Only way to accomplish a task is to expend
  • ne’s own energy
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Bosque Redondo, 1863-1868

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Manuelito& Juanita

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“When you get captured, you just tell them, ‘Go ahead and kill me, and I will shed my blood on my own land, not some strange land. And my people will have the land even if I die.”

  • -HastiinCh’ilHajin
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“Nihimásánídóónihicheiitihdahoozníí. T’ááałtsxobikeitiháahoznii’. Ch’éináhyik’eitihdahooznii.” “Our grandmothers and grandfathers suffered

  • greatly. Everything that could be suffered and

endured, they suffered and endured. The stresses were great.”

  • -Frank Nez, Tohatchi, NM
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The way our Ancestors used to think about the things they believed in was perhaps their greatest attribute. They died for their most central beliefs and gave their lives for their most critical possessions. Because of this we are here today.

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To the extent that we litigate our right to sovereignty within this legal framework, we have lost the true essence of our sovereignty.

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Concepts of Cultural Sovereignty

  • Allows charting of course for the future
  • Cultural sovereignty can become a tool

to protect our rights to language, religion, art, tradition, and the distinctive norms and customs that guide our societies

  • Too often, we as Indian people are forced

to litigate our rights within the dominant society’s appraisal of tribal sovereignty.

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Cultural Sovereignty Is inherent in every sense of that word, and it is up to Indian people to define, assert, protect, and insist upon respect for that right.

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Concepts of Cultural Sovereignty

  • Allows charting of course for the

future

  • Cultural sovereignty can become a

tool to protect our rights to language, religion, art, tradition, and the distinctive norms and customs that guide our societies

  • Too often, we as Indian people are

forced to litigate our rights within the dominant society’s appraisal of tribal sovereignty.

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I have lost my way many times in this world,

  • nly to return to these rounded, shimmering

hills and see myself recreated more beautiful than I could ever believe.

  • -Joy Harjo (Creek)