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Native North America in Motion

Performances of Resistance and Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2024

Ashlyn King Barnett
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Abstract

Two Indigenous long-distance walking performances, by the Mother Earth Water Walkers and by the Standing Rock Youth Runners, employ walking as a performance of Indigenous sovereignty, generating tribal knowledge, resistance, and cultural resurgence. What can these acts of long-distance walking tell us about the ways in which Indigenous people create, embody, and perform cultural sovereignty in North America?

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Student Essay Contest Honorable Mentions
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TDR , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , September 2024 , pp. 195 - 208
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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