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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS
SPEAKER: Christopher Pexa, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
This talk gives an overview of recent Mellon-funded research toward the creation of a digital atlas of Dakota/Lakota/Nakota storytelling related to culturally-, historically-, and politically-significant places across Oceti Sakowin territory. Building on the work of other recent Indigenous digital mapping projects (Bdote Memory Map 2023; Goodhouse 2019; Montoya 2021), the Oceti Sakowin Owapi (Atlas) will center storytelling as a way of unsettling settler-colonial parameters of the mapping form and of privileging instead Indigenous embodiment, language, and performance.
About the Speaker
Christopher Pexa is an Associate Professor of English at Harvard University and affiliate faculty with the Harvard University Native American Program. His research interests include: Očhéti Šakówiŋ Language and Literature, Native American and Indigenous Literatures, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Global Anglophone Indigenous Literatures, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, and Critical Indigenous Theory.