Renya K Ramirez
Biographic Data
| ID | 218845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renya K Ramirez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renya K |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramirez |
| SIGNATURE | RAMIREZ R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-2323-3114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Family/Tribal Ethnography: Combining Family/Tribal History and Intimate Ethnography
I decided to coin a new term, family/tribal ethnography, by which I mean focusing on tribal perspectives of Native families. I argue here that family/tribal ethnography occupies the intersection of anthropology and history, and more specifically family/tribal history and intimate ethnography. For far too long, White anthropologists wrote biographies about Natives, assuming Indigenous people could not write their own life stories, and did not gain…
Valentin Lopez, Healing, and Decolonization
Discussion| July 01 2020 Valentin Lopez, Healing, and Decolonization: Contesting Mission Bells, El Camino Real, and California Governor Newsom Renya K. Ramirez; Renya K. Ramirez University of California, Santa Cruz Renya K. Ramirez (Ho-Chunk/Ojibwe) is professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. She authored Native Hubs: Culture, Community and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond (Duke University Press, 2007) and Standing…
Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud
Ho-Chunk Warrior, Intellectual, and Activist: Henry Roe Cloud Fights for the Apaches
Ho-Chunk Warrior, Intellectual, and ActivistHenry Roe Cloud Fights for the Apaches Renya K. Ramirez (bio) Henry Roe Cloud (1884–1950), my Ho-Chunk grandfather, an activist, intellectual, and policymaker, was a cofounder of the Society of American Indians (sai), the first Native American–led, pan-tribal national organization created in 1911. This essay examines Cloud’s successful activist work to free Geronimo, an Apache, and his people, who had b…
Ho-Chunk Warrior, Intellectual, and Activist: Henry Roe Cloud Fights for the Apaches
Henry Roe Cloud to Henry Cloud: Ho-Chunk Strategies and Colonialism
This essay examines the gendered settler colonial aspects of Henry Roe Cloud’s relationship with his informally adoptive ‘mother,’ Mary Roe. It argues that Cloud, my Ho-Chunk grandfather, an intellectual, activist, and policy-maker, defied colonial reality by appropriating the white notion of the self-made man, and by relying upon his Ho-Chunk masculinity, his partnership with his wife, Elizabeth, his Christian identity, and Ho-Chunk-centric hubs…
Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture
Drawing on ethnographic research with underrepresented communities in the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and the United States, this wide-ranging anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citiz
Remapping Gender, Justice, and Rights in the Indigenous Americas: Toward a Comparative Analysis and Collaborative Methodology
Learning across Differences: Native and Ethnic Studies Feminisms
Learning across Differences:Native and Ethnic Studies Feminisms Renya K. Ramirez (bio) Some colleagues—who are members of Native studies departments—tell me I occupy a precarious and vexed position as part of the project and field of American studies. They argue that my living and breathing within an interdisciplinary space weakens my ability to theorize Native studies from uniquely indigenous perspectives. They tell me the goal of American studi…
Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond
Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond
Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender
Too often there is the assumption in Native communities that we as indigenous women should defend a tribal nationalism that ignores sexism as part of our very survival as women as well as our liberation from colonization. In contrast, in this essay, I assert that race, tribal nation, and gender should be non-hierarchically linked as categories of analysis in order to understand the breadth of our oppression as well as the full potential of our li…
Community Healing and Cultural Citizenship
This chapter contains section titled: NATIVE AMERICANS AND ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP FIRST ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE: INDIANS AND ALLIES DEMAND RESPECT IN A PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL SECOND ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE: COLOR OF VIOLENCE CONFERENCE THIRD ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE: AMERICAN INDIAN HOLOCAUST EXHIBIT CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP AND NATIVE NOTIONS OF BELONGING
Julia Sanchez's Story: An Indigenous Woman between Nations
L'A. examine l'histoire de vie d'une femme amerindienne/chicana - identifiee sous le pseudonyme de Julia Sanchez -, dont l'identite est marquee par son experience du metissage entre une mere mexicaine et un pere amerindien yokut et une experience de vie entre les Etats-Unis, le Mexique, Aztlan, et sa communaute tribale. Le recit de Julia Sanchez permet d'enrichir et d'etendre la notion de citoyennete culturelle (R. Rosaldo), car son experience es…
Healing Through Grief: Urban Indians Reimagining Culture and Community in San Jose, California
This exhibit is very informative; our Native peoples, “federally” recognized and unrecognized, full-blood and mixed-blood, from north, south, and central America, need to unite and free our minds from the colonial borders and governments imposed on our hemisphere.\n—An exhibitgoer reaction, May 1996\nThe American Indian Holocaust exhibit is a community project organized as part of the American Indian Alliance, a group of urban Indians, who first …
Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender
Too often there is the assumption in Native communities that we as indigenous women should defend a tribal nationalism that ignores sexism as part of our very survival as women as well as our liberation from colonization. In contrast, in this essay, I assert that race, tribal nation, and gender should be non-hierarchically linked as categories of analysis in order to understand the breadth of our oppression as well as the full potential of our li…
Learning across Differences: Native and Ethnic Studies Feminisms
Learning across Differences:Native and Ethnic Studies Feminisms Renya K. Ramirez (bio) Some colleagues—who are members of Native studies departments—tell me I occupy a precarious and vexed position as part of the project and field of American studies. They argue that my living and breathing within an interdisciplinary space weakens my ability to theorize Native studies from uniquely indigenous perspectives. They tell me the goal of American studi…
Remapping Gender, Justice, and Rights in the Indigenous Americas: Toward a Comparative Analysis and Collaborative Methodology
Family/Tribal Ethnography: Combining Family/Tribal History and Intimate Ethnography
I decided to coin a new term, family/tribal ethnography, by which I mean focusing on tribal perspectives of Native families. I argue here that family/tribal ethnography occupies the intersection of anthropology and history, and more specifically family/tribal history and intimate ethnography. For far too long, White anthropologists wrote biographies about Natives, assuming Indigenous people could not write their own life stories, and did not gain…
Ho-Chunk Warrior, Intellectual, and Activist: Henry Roe Cloud Fights for the Apaches
Healing Through Grief: Urban Indians Reimagining Culture and Community in San Jose, California
This exhibit is very informative; our Native peoples, “federally” recognized and unrecognized, full-blood and mixed-blood, from north, south, and central America, need to unite and free our minds from the colonial borders and governments imposed on our hemisphere.\n—An exhibitgoer reaction, May 1996\nThe American Indian Holocaust exhibit is a community project organized as part of the American Indian Alliance, a group of urban Indians, who first …
Julia Sanchez's Story: An Indigenous Woman between Nations
L'A. examine l'histoire de vie d'une femme amerindienne/chicana - identifiee sous le pseudonyme de Julia Sanchez -, dont l'identite est marquee par son experience du metissage entre une mere mexicaine et un pere amerindien yokut et une experience de vie entre les Etats-Unis, le Mexique, Aztlan, et sa communaute tribale. Le recit de Julia Sanchez permet d'enrichir et d'etendre la notion de citoyennete culturelle (R. Rosaldo), car son experience es…
Community Healing and Cultural Citizenship
This chapter contains section titled: NATIVE AMERICANS AND ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP FIRST ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE: INDIANS AND ALLIES DEMAND RESPECT IN A PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL SECOND ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE: COLOR OF VIOLENCE CONFERENCE THIRD ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE: AMERICAN INDIAN HOLOCAUST EXHIBIT CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP AND NATIVE NOTIONS OF BELONGING
Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond
Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond
Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender
Too often there is the assumption in Native communities that we as indigenous women should defend a tribal nationalism that ignores sexism as part of our very survival as women as well as our liberation from colonization. In contrast, in this essay, I assert that race, tribal nation, and gender should be non-hierarchically linked as categories of analysis in order to understand the breadth of our oppression as well as the full potential of our li…
Learning across Differences: Native and Ethnic Studies Feminisms
Learning across Differences:Native and Ethnic Studies Feminisms Renya K. Ramirez (bio) Some colleagues—who are members of Native studies departments—tell me I occupy a precarious and vexed position as part of the project and field of American studies. They argue that my living and breathing within an interdisciplinary space weakens my ability to theorize Native studies from uniquely indigenous perspectives. They tell me the goal of American studi…
Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture
Drawing on ethnographic research with underrepresented communities in the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and the United States, this wide-ranging anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citiz
Remapping Gender, Justice, and Rights in the Indigenous Americas: Toward a Comparative Analysis and Collaborative Methodology
Henry Roe Cloud to Henry Cloud: Ho-Chunk Strategies and Colonialism
This essay examines the gendered settler colonial aspects of Henry Roe Cloud’s relationship with his informally adoptive ‘mother,’ Mary Roe. It argues that Cloud, my Ho-Chunk grandfather, an intellectual, activist, and policy-maker, defied colonial reality by appropriating the white notion of the self-made man, and by relying upon his Ho-Chunk masculinity, his partnership with his wife, Elizabeth, his Christian identity, and Ho-Chunk-centric hubs…
Ho-Chunk Warrior, Intellectual, and Activist: Henry Roe Cloud Fights for the Apaches
Ho-Chunk Warrior, Intellectual, and ActivistHenry Roe Cloud Fights for the Apaches Renya K. Ramirez (bio) Henry Roe Cloud (1884–1950), my Ho-Chunk grandfather, an activist, intellectual, and policymaker, was a cofounder of the Society of American Indians (sai), the first Native American–led, pan-tribal national organization created in 1911. This essay examines Cloud’s successful activist work to free Geronimo, an Apache, and his people, who had b…
Ho-Chunk Warrior, Intellectual, and Activist: Henry Roe Cloud Fights for the Apaches
Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud
Valentin Lopez, Healing, and Decolonization
Discussion| July 01 2020 Valentin Lopez, Healing, and Decolonization: Contesting Mission Bells, El Camino Real, and California Governor Newsom Renya K. Ramirez; Renya K. Ramirez University of California, Santa Cruz Renya K. Ramirez (Ho-Chunk/Ojibwe) is professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. She authored Native Hubs: Culture, Community and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond (Duke University Press, 2007) and Standing…
Family/Tribal Ethnography: Combining Family/Tribal History and Intimate Ethnography
I decided to coin a new term, family/tribal ethnography, by which I mean focusing on tribal perspectives of Native families. I argue here that family/tribal ethnography occupies the intersection of anthropology and history, and more specifically family/tribal history and intimate ethnography. For far too long, White anthropologists wrote biographies about Natives, assuming Indigenous people could not write their own life stories, and did not gain…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (5 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works)