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Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World
MCC Theater
“Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World” (2021) follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia, Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain these processes. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the US are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. The five stories include sustaining traditions of Hopi dryland farming in Arizona; restoring buffalo to the Blackfeet reservation in Montana; maintaining sustainable forestry on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin; reviving native food forests in Hawaii; and returning prescribed fire to the landscape by the Karuk Tribe of California. As the climate crisis escalates, these time-tested practices of North America's original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world.
Co- Sponsors: AIISA, American Indian Graduate Student Alliance
Native Justice Revisited: On the Making of the UCLA Guam Travel Study Program
Keith L. Camacho
MCC Theater
What is Native justice? How does one theorize, debate, and practice just relations with Native people and the wider public? And how might students and teachers alike support such endeavors? In this talk, I will address these questions by exploring the making of the UCLA Guam Travel Study Program from 2017 - 2019. Keith will discuss the ways in which the indigenous Chamorro concepts of mamåhlao (humility), chenchule' (reciprocity), and inafa'moalek (group harmony) informed the program's academic curricula, community partnerships, and public-facing activities. Given this program's focus on Guam, Keith will also offer some historical background about the island's status as a US colony and its prospects for a decolonized and demilitarized future. As a conclusion, Keith will then highlight related efforts to advance Chamorro and Pacific Islander community-based scholarship in Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Oceania more generally.
Speaker Bio: Keith L. Camacho is a Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the author of Sacred Men: Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam (Duke University Press, 2019) and the editor of Reppin': Pacific Islander Youth and Native Justice (University of Washington Press, 2021).
Children’s Event
Children’s Event: Outdoor Science!
West Campus Community Center
Join us for an afternoon of outdoor science! We will have stations with science experiments and demonstrations appropriate for different age groups—and everyone will get to make SLIME! Supplies and snacks will be provided. All ages welcome.
West Campus Community Center
737 Elkus Walk, Isla Vista, CA 93117
Co- Sponsors: Graduate Students Association
Race Matters Series
Santa Bruta—Home of El Indio Muerto: The Colonial-Carceral City’s Attempt to Eliminate the “Mexican Problem”
Dr. Amy Martinez
MCC Theater
Dr. Martinez examines the intersections between U.S. settler-colonial ideology and its influence on contemporary perceptions of race, imprisonment, and gang involvement. She examines prominent instances of gang violence, the responses of cities and law enforcement to gang presence, and the significance of tattooing practices within gangs. She aims to shed light on how the policing of body art impacts the daily experiences of Mexican/Chicano males in Santa Barbara. Dr. Martinez argues that Santa Barbara provides valuable insights into how its settler-colonial history shapes and contributes to the racialization and criminalization of Indigenous, Chicanx, and Mexican communities.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Amy Andrea is a lecturer in the Sociology Department at UCSB and an Assistant Professor in the Justice Studies Department at San Jose State University. Her research interests include Mexican/Chicano Gang Culture, Mass Incarceration, Third World & Indigenous Qualitative Research Methods, U.S. (Settler) Colonialism, Police Use of Lethal Force, and Prison/Police Abolition. As a first-generation, working-class, and system impacted Xicana from Southern California, her experiences inform her commitment to decolonial gang research on Mexican/Chicanx families and their associations and experiences with gang and street life.
