Event—McNickle Center

2022 NCAIS Graduate Spring Workshop

Image: A U.S. Department of Energy Site on the Navajo Nation in 2016. Photo by Teresa Montoya

Image: A U.S. Department of Energy Site on the Navajo Nation in 2016. Photo by Teresa Montoya

Image: A U.S. Department of Energy Site on the Navajo Nation in 2016. Photo by Teresa Montoya

NCAIS Graduate Spring Workshop in Research Methods

The Cline Library, Northern Arizona University

Dr. Matthew Kruer, History, University of Chicago

Dr. Teresa Montoya, Anthropology, University of Chicago

This workshop will examine the phenomenon of extraction in the history of American settler colonialism, with a focus on the intersection between the expropriation of Indigenous homelands—the extraction of territories and resources—and the exploitation of Indigenous ways of knowing—the extraction of knowledge. The workshop will combine scholarship on environmental justice and environmental racism, the theory and practice of Indigenous archives, and histories of enclosure and resource extraction, with individual research at the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University, whose holdings are particularly strong in maps, photographs, and print materials related to the Colorado Plateau region. Students will also learn about the library’s role in facilitating the creation and implementation of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials and learn directly from local activists engaged in Indigenous land-based approaches to conservation and care.

Workshop Participants:

Alika Bourgette, University of Washington

Florencia Pech Cardenas, University of Minnesota

Viviana Huiliñi-Curio, University of Colorado-Boulder

Molli Claire Damiani, University of Winnipeg

Teagan R. Dreyer, Oklahoma State University

Joshua Friedlein, Yale University

Sam Froiland, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Carly Griffith, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jamie Henton, Pennsylvania State

Rachel Howard, University of Chicago

Hunter Kennedy, University of Chicago

Kyle Kindall, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Ryuichi Nakayama, University of New Mexico

Risa Puleo, Northwestern University

Jonathan Radocay, University of California-Davis

Brendan Thomas, University of Oklahoma

Anna Whitney, University of Michigan

Kabl Wilkerson, Harvard University