On the Indigenous origins of settler colonial studies: Kēhaulani Vaughn, ‘The Slyly Reproductive Lessons of Haunani-Kay Trask’, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 46, 1, 2023, pp. 99-113 | settler colonial studies blog

On the Indigenous origins of settler colonial studies: Kēhaulani Vaughn, ‘The Slyly Reproductive Lessons of Haunani-Kay Trask’, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 46, 1, 2023, pp. 99-113

08Apr23

Excerpt: In her seminal work, Haunani-Kay Trask (HKT) brilliantly named and articulated the contours of what we call settler colonial violence and laid the important groundwork for the theorization of Indigenous feminisms. Trask’s influential scholarship is accessible and clear, and written years before the aforementioned fields became acceptable in current scholarship. Trask’s definition of settler colonialism emphasizes the need to identify who is a Native and who is a settler in any locale and the responsibility to do so for future generations. Emphasizing the genealogical caretakers in a given place, Trask contests Native erasure in settler colonial societies.

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