Thursday, October 26, 2006

Voicing Indigeneity

Last Saturday, two of my colleagues from the Department of Ethnic Studies, UCSD and I sat at my kitchen table and recorded our first podcast. Our intent was to foster and continue our constant intimate dialogues on the topic of indigeneity. This specific first round was intended to contextualize and articulate the urgency and necessity of incorporating indigenous epistemology into Ethnic Studies curriculum. It was a productive hour long conversation that shall initiate a series of discussions in the near future. Check it out...

http://voicingindigeneity.blogspot.com/

Michael "Miget" Lujan Bevacqua, a Chamorro scholar, activist and friend, is the up and coming expert on "everything Chamorro and anything Guam." Angela Morril, a Modoc-Klamath Native of Portland, does exciting work on memory, war, and healing.

There is more to come...