This conversation is Hosted by Tina, Co-hosted with Napolean, featuring guest Kianna Pete (Dine). She is a scholar, advocate, freelance writer, and Indigenous education & policy researcher from New Mexico. Working with tribes of the southwest, environmental justice organizers, and legal scholars, she promotes Indigenous self-determination and equitable education. Kianna also provides free educational resources on social media about Indigenous organizing around issues of climate change and tribal rights.
Kianna's project title: The Formation of Tribal Reservation Border Towns: Navigating Dine Identity in “Injun-Killing” Spaces. Examination of Tribal Reservation Bordertowns - relatively new concept to Indigenous studies that responds to the ensuing violence against Native Americans.
Helpful links:
Book - Red Nation Rising - https://www.google.com/books/edition/Red_Nation_Rising/gbRHEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
The Everyday Violence of Indian Country's "bordertowns" - https://www.hcn.org/issues/53-6/ideas-books-the-everyday-violence-of-indian-countrys-bordertowns/
The Amerian Indian Movement: "A Broken Circle" NHD Documentary: https://youtu.be/IMjHxththQA?si=E_zJjFiTuV3p6-Or
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kianna_pete/?hl=en
Tohono O'odham Young Voices:
https://www.toyoungvoices.com/
