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Warrior women against settler colonialism: Kiara M. Vigil, ‘Warrior Women: Recovering Indigenous Visions across Film and Activism’ Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 60, 2, 2021, pp. 169-174

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Excerpt: I came to this project through another web of relations as well, in search of new understandings about the life and activism of my great-grandfather, the Dakota actor Shooting Star. My research as a Native cultural historian depends upon building ethical relationships with my subjects, whether living or not. I approach research with a deep sense of respect and responsibility for the Native voices and stories I recover. Like Simpson, I am invested in complex learning that takes place within a network of Indigenous intelligence.5Indigenous knowledge systems are “networked because the modes of communication and interaction between beings occur in complex nonlinear forms, across time and space.” I highlight the networked contributions of Native people to American society to account for complexity and contradiction and to offer a fuller understanding of settler colonialism and Indigenous constellations of co-resistance since colonizers come to stay, to destroy in order to replace. As Patrick Wolfe argues, “invasion is a structure, not an event.” Therefore, I look for the strategies Indigenous peoples use to resist the imposition of colonial structures onto and into their lives, from the past to the present.


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