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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) Profile picture
ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin)
@DeondreSmiles
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe | Geography professor | @GIFLab_UVic Director | Researching Indigenous cultural responses to climate change | Tweets = My own views
Nov 12, 2024 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
It's time for this week's #IndigenousGeographies thread--a short one on Indigenous cartographies!

(1/) Image A refresher from previous threads: geography, and by extension, cartography (the art of making maps), has long been part of the colonial and imperial project. Why? Understanding and categorizing space was viewed as essential to governing and subjugating.

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Nov 4, 2024 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
It's time for this week's #IndigenousGeographies thread. Today, we'll focus on how Indigenous geographies have overcome the 'colonial gaze'.

(Calvin & Hobbes strip shared with apologies to Bill Watterson)

(1/) Image What exactly is the 'colonial gaze'? I define it as how colonial structures work to observe all they can to make divisions between humans and non-humans, 'civilization' and 'wilderness,' 'civilized' and 'savages,' etc. This can be extended to space and place as well.

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Oct 23, 2024 • 37 tweets • 9 min read
Another #IndigenousGeographies thread by yours truly after a week's hiatus due to travel. Today, we'll discuss how feminist praxis/theory/thought interacts with Indigenous geographies!

(1/) Image When I teach about this, I ask my students to ask themselves, "How can geography be more than just impartial or dispassionate about the spaces it studies? How can I embrace my connection to the spaces around me?"

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Oct 1, 2024 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
"What are Indigenous geographies?"

A thread.

Much scholarship has focused on Indigenous geographies in the last decade or two. However, one of the most challenging questions is how we define these geographies and what these definitions mean in the here and now.

(1/) Part of this, I often teach, focuses on the ways that we have tried to define Geography itself--we hold onto its core principles of place and space, but even then, we still have existential crises every decade or two about what Geography is, and what it will be.

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May 23, 2024 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Yesterday, I and a group of concerned faculty went and attempted to deliver a letter to our University administration, signed by over 10 percent of UVic faculty, asking them to meet in good faith with student members of the encampment on campus.

(1/) We were stopped almost immediately by a security guard as we tried to enter the administration building. When we stated the purpose for our visit, he refused to let us enter the building, and quickly, a large number of security guards (and at least one police officer) appeared.