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Jul11

Season 3 Archive: “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond” Radio Show

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Show # 1 The Politics of the NAGRPA in New England
J. Kehaulani Kauanui interviews Dr. Marge Bruchac (Abenaki), a scholar whose research focuses on the historical erasure and cultural recovery of indigenous peoples in the Connecticut River Valley, who discusses the “unintended consequences” of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the ways […]

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Feb3

Season 2 Archive: “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond” Radio Show

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Show #1 Cherokee Nation, Freedman Descendants, and African American Protest
Host Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui interviews Taylor Keen (Cherokee), former Councilor-At-Large on the tribal council of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, who lost his seat in the June 2007 re-election due to his vocal support for the enfranchisement of Freedmen descendants. Listen in and learn more […]

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Jan23

Season 1 Archive: “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond” Radio Show

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Show #1: Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee), President and Executive Director of The Morning Star Institute, discusses the state of Indian Country on Capitol Hill. Original air date: 2-05-07
Show #2: Richard Velky (Schaghticoke), Chief of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation on the politics of their struggle for federal recognition and the role of the […]

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J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. is an associate professor of anthropology and American studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Her first book, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity, was published by Duke University Press (2008).

She is currently embarking on two new book monographs: The Kingdom Come? Hawaiian Nationalism and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality, and Hawaiian New England: The Grammar of American Colonialism.

She has co-edited special journal issues: “Migrating Feminisms,” Women’s Studies International Forum (1998);”Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge,” The Contemporary Pacific (2001); and “Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of the Waka,” Pacific Studies (2007).

Her essays have been published in the following journals: SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly, Social Text, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Mississippi Review, Amerasia Journal, The Contemporary Pacific, Pacific Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum, and American Indian Quarterly.

She also sits on the following editorial boards: Settler Colonial Studies, American Indian Quarterly; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Hulili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being; and Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. From 2005-2010, she also served as an editorial board member of Journal of Pacific History.

From 2005-2008, Kauanui was part of a six-person steering committee that co-founded the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). From 2008-2009, she served as an acting council member. In May 2009, she was elected as a council member for a three year term. For more information, see: http://naisa.org/

She is a member of the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel. For more information, see: http://usacbi.wordpress.com/