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Daniel Justice presents on the Global Native Literary Studies panel. Global Native Literary Studies: This panel provides an opportunity to reflect on Indigenous worlds and Indigenous literary worlds. Through their fiction as well as their political, institutional, scholarly and cultural work, each of the panelists has explored the range of ways and reasons for Indigenous engagement with literary arts. Chantal Spitz's character Tetiare (in English translation) "washes away… dirt by writing." Albert Wendt's character Alapati is encouraged for his ability "to story our lives history and refusal to become nothing." Daniel Justice's character Tobhi recalls Strivix counseling a Dragonfly who claims "I don't know how to be a Dragonfly" with the suggestion "All ye got to do it tell yer people's story, and ye'll figure it out." What questions, aspirations and political 'lines in the sand' have underpinned 'Global Native Literary Studies'? What lessons have been learned in Indigenous and Pacific worlds about writing, regionalism and 'the global'? What strengths and dimensions of Indigenous Studies and Pacific Studies could contribute to scholars and students grappling with the notion of 'World Literature'? What Samoan, Tahitian and Cherokee concepts could contribute to scholars and students grappling with the notion of 'World Literature'? Rather than proposing how or why Indigenous and Pacific texts might be included in a concept of (and classes about) 'World Literature' on the basis of the fact these too are 'part of the world,' the panelists will be invited to suggest how 'World Literature,' Pacific and Indigenous Literary worlds might mutually engage. Moderator: Alice Te Punga Somerville Panelists: Chantal Spitz, Daniel Justice, Albert Wendt

Recent laws against same-sex marriage in the Cherokee Nation provide the backdrop for this analysis of alternative models of Cherokee sexual diversity. Rather than seek identifiable historical precedent that is largely unavailable in the historical record and vehemently denied by the predominantly Baptist Cherokee majority, this essay argues instead for a modern queer Cherokee aesthetic that is both responsive to the contemporary experiences of gender- and sexuality-variant Cherokees and inspired by the late Mississippian category of "anomaly" as a queer-inclusive tribal model for belonging.

Indigenous Americas Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- What's Done to the People Is Done to the Land -- Part I: Family Narrations of Privatization -- patterns, parcels, and place nitspu tiłhin ktitʸutitʸu -- Narrated Nationhood and Imagined Belonging: Fanciful Family Stories and Kinship Legacies of Allotment -- Making Mahnomen Home: The Dawes Act and Ojibwe Mobility in Grandma's Stories -- Returning Fractionated Allotments Back to the Tribes-One Family's Story -- Allotment Speculations: The Emergence of Land Memory -- Interlude: Kinscape -- Part II: Racial and Gender Taxonomies -- "Mixed-Bloods" and Métis in U.S. Allotment and Canadian Enfranchisement Policies -- Extinguishing the Dead: Colonial Anxieties and Métis Scrip at the Fringe of Focus -- A Dakota Family Story of Race, Land, and Dispossession before the Dawes Act -- You can hear locusts in the heat of the summer -- Interlude: Amikode -- Part III: Privatization as State Violence -- Navigating Guåhan's Treacherous Roads through CHamoru Feminist Pathways -- Settler Colonial Purchase: Privatizing Hawaiian Land -- The Enduring Confiscation of Indigenous Allotments in the National Interest: Pōkaewhenua 1961-1969 -- The Privatization of American Indian Resources from Allotment to the Present -- The Incorporation of Life and Land: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act -- Interlude: Long Live Deatnu and the Grand Allotment -- Part IV: Resistance and Resurgence -- Enacting the Rights and Governance of North Karelian ICCAs and Skolt Sámi -- "Our Divine Right to Land": The Struggle against Privatization of Nahua Communal Lands -- The Sakhina Struggle in Late Ottoman and British-Ruled Palestine, 1876-1948 -- Petitioning Allotment: Collectivist Stories of Indigenous Solidarity.

"Collection of essays about the legacy of allotment in North America and some other countries"--

This special issue proposes that dialogue between Native studies and queer studies can contribute to our understanding of the U.S. nation-state, Native polities and peoplehood, and the complex role of culture(s) in political expression and identification. Native and queer studies have, together and separately, worked to theorize and defend various kinds of diversity as well as individual and collective self-representation in the face of totalizing state legalities and ideologies, and this special issue is devoted to the intersections of those sometimes consonant, sometimes dissonant, interventions. In the introduction, each of the issue's three editors writes about his or her own "take" on the import of the collection. Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee) places the collection in the context of Native lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit activism, and the scholarship that has grown out of that activism. He warns that times may well be getting worse rather than better for this kind of scholarship and activism, and encourages readers to understand the collection as a rallying call to further and more complex and critical work. Bethany Schneider places the collection in the context of the history of U.S. Indian policy, arguing that readers may well need a primer in how the state has furthered the project of genocide through the violent control of Native genders and sexualities. Mark Rifkin explains why the collection, with its particular focus on the state, seemed so important at this particular moment, and discusses the excitements and troubles of the interface between Native and queer studies. He introduces the essays and asks readers to imagine what it might look like to indigenize queer studies.

The Global Native Literary Studies Panel concludes with questions from the audience. The Global Native Literary Studies Panel provides an opportunity to reflect on Indigenous worlds and Indigenous literary worlds. Through their fiction as well as their political, institutional, scholarly and cultural work, each of the panelists explores the range of ways and reasons for Indigenous engagement with literary arts. Chantal Spitz's character Tetiare (in English translation) "washes away… dirt by writing." Albert Wendt's character Alapati is encouraged for his ability "to story our lives history and refusal to become nothing." Daniel Justice's character Tobhi recalls Strivix counseling a Dragonfly who claims "I don't know how to be a Dragonfly" with the suggestion "All ye got to do it tell yer people's story, and ye'll figure it out." This panel also asks, What questions, aspirations and political "lines in the sand" have underpinned "Global Native Literary Studies"? What lessons have been learned in Indigenous and Pacific worlds about writing, regionalism, and "the global"? What strengths and dimensions of Indigenous Studies and Pacific Studies could contribute to scholars and students grappling with the notion of "World Literature"? What Samoan, Tahitian and Cherokee concepts could contribute to scholars and students grappling with the notion of "World Literature"? Rather than proposing how or why Indigenous and Pacific texts might be included in a concept of (and classes about) "World Literature" on the basis of the fact these too are "part of the world," the panelists suggest how "World Literature," Pacific, and Indigenous Literary worlds might mutually engage. Moderator: Alice Te Punga Somerville Panelists: Chantal Spitz, Daniel Justice, Albert Wendt