Led by Ashton Dunkley
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We hope you will join us for our next webinar of the series, which will be led by Ashton Dunkley. We will learn from Ashton about the importance of respecting and recognizing Indigenous self-determination and working to dispel settler notions of so-called Indigenous "authenticity." This is based upon settler policies like blood quantum policies and the one-drop rule that work to racialize Indigenous peoples and deny their intimate connections to homeland - and the identities rooted in those connections.
We will learn about the importance of land to Indigenous (Black and Nanticoke-Lenape) identities & the connections between land and body/body and land. We’ll have discussions of how land and water carry the stories of Indigenous peoples and how those histories are disrupted by settler colonial exploitation.
Ashton’s bio:
Ashton Pemapanik Dunkley is a Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape and Jamaican Ph.D. candidate from the University of Minnesota's American Studies Department. As her heart lies at the connections made between African Diasporic Indigenous and Turtle Island Indigenous communities, her work and research lies at the intersections of Critical Indigenous Studies and Critical Black Studies exploring the histories of Black and Nanticoke-Lenape peoples from her homelands, the tidewaters of the Delaware Bay. She considers herself an Afro-Indigenous Feminist, thinking often about the intimate connections between Black and Native peoples, their connections to the land, water, and more-than-human beings, and the grandmothers in her life who have passed ancestral knowledge of these relations down to her.
Resources shared by Ashton
Quill Christie-Peters
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
bell hooks
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Blogs from Ashton:
CNAIR Stories: Researching the Understanding of Native American Authenticity in 1926
Hidden in Plain Sight: The American Indian Movement and the Revival of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, 1969-1982
Contact Ashton via email: dunkl031@umn.edu
Closed captioning thanks to Don Rombach.