Melanie K Yazzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 474541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie K Yazzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie K |
| FAMILY NAME | Yazzie |
| SIGNATURE | YAZZIE M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Red Scare
Reviewed by: Red Scare: The State’s Indigenous Terrorist by Joanne Barker Melanie K. Yazzie Joanne Barker. Red Scare: The State’s Indigenous Terrorist. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. 192 pp. Hardcover, $85.00. Joanne Barker’s Red Scare offers an introduction into “how Indigeneity has been made indistinguishable from terrorism” (110) within discourses of US and Canadian imperialism. Barker uses an Indigenous feminist methodology t…
We must make kin to get free
In this article, I ask, how can we draw from acts and forms of kinship to strengthen our dreams of being free? Looking at a specific example of Indigenous political intervention that occurred in January 2017 during the airport protests against President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, I explore the political and analytical possibilities of feminist relationality, particularly relations of care, reciprocity, and abundance, for articulating a practice o…
US Imperialism and the Problem of “Culture” in Indigenous Politics
This article aims to articulate a political formation that I term Indigenous internationalist feminism, which centers a critique of US imperialism and is premised on three intellectual and political traditions: radical Indigenous internationalism, Black left feminism, and queer Indigenous feminism. Indigenous internationalist feminism provides a framework for transnational Indigenous practices that seek to build counterhegemonic power with other …
Decolonizing Development in Diné Bikeyah
In this article, I examine the anti-capitalist and antidevelopment politics that Diné resisters espouse in their critiques of resource extraction in the Navajo Nation. I argue that existing anthropological and historical studies about Diné resistance minimize the specifically anti-capitalist character of this resistance by erasing the capitalist underpinnings of development. I draw from Indigenous feminists, Native studies scholars, and Diné land…
Solidarity with Palestine from Diné Bikéyah
Solidarity with Palestine from Diné Bikéyah Melanie K. Yazzie (bio) This commentary focuses on recent Palestinian solidarity efforts unfolding in Indigenous communities and how these efforts have the potential to expand and strengthen US-based Palestine solidarity movements. One such effort, Diné Solidarity With Palestine (DSWP), is attempting to apply lessons from academic solidarity with Palestine to grassroots organizing and education with Nav…
Unlimited Limitations
Unlimited Limitations:The Navajos' Winters Rights Deemed Worthless in the 2012 Navajo–Hopi Little Colorado River Settlement Melanie K. Yazzie (bio) Water rights are to the late twentieth century what land rights were to the late nineteenth century. Anonymous Quantification Means Minimization In recent weeks, the Navajo Nation government (hereafter referred to as "the Nation") has been on the march supporting the controversial Navajo-Hopi Little C…
The Israel/Palestine Field School
In May 2011, the Anthropology Department and the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico offered a class entitled “Technologies of Settler-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine.” This field school was designed as a decolonizing project for American students (an extremely diverse group representative of New Mexico’s particular diverse population that included Hispanic, Native American, Arab and Muslim-American, Jewish-American, an…
Decolonizing Development in Diné Bikeyah
In this article, I examine the anti-capitalist and antidevelopment politics that Diné resisters espouse in their critiques of resource extraction in the Navajo Nation. I argue that existing anthropological and historical studies about Diné resistance minimize the specifically anti-capitalist character of this resistance by erasing the capitalist underpinnings of development. I draw from Indigenous feminists, Native studies scholars, and Diné land…
We must make kin to get free
In this article, I ask, how can we draw from acts and forms of kinship to strengthen our dreams of being free? Looking at a specific example of Indigenous political intervention that occurred in January 2017 during the airport protests against President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, I explore the political and analytical possibilities of feminist relationality, particularly relations of care, reciprocity, and abundance, for articulating a practice o…
Solidarity with Palestine from Diné Bikéyah
Solidarity with Palestine from Diné Bikéyah Melanie K. Yazzie (bio) This commentary focuses on recent Palestinian solidarity efforts unfolding in Indigenous communities and how these efforts have the potential to expand and strengthen US-based Palestine solidarity movements. One such effort, Diné Solidarity With Palestine (DSWP), is attempting to apply lessons from academic solidarity with Palestine to grassroots organizing and education with Nav…
Unlimited Limitations
Unlimited Limitations:The Navajos' Winters Rights Deemed Worthless in the 2012 Navajo–Hopi Little Colorado River Settlement Melanie K. Yazzie (bio) Water rights are to the late twentieth century what land rights were to the late nineteenth century. Anonymous Quantification Means Minimization In recent weeks, the Navajo Nation government (hereafter referred to as "the Nation") has been on the march supporting the controversial Navajo-Hopi Little C…
The Israel/Palestine Field School
In May 2011, the Anthropology Department and the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico offered a class entitled “Technologies of Settler-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine.” This field school was designed as a decolonizing project for American students (an extremely diverse group representative of New Mexico’s particular diverse population that included Hispanic, Native American, Arab and Muslim-American, Jewish-American, an…
Solidarity with Palestine from Diné Bikéyah
Solidarity with Palestine from Diné Bikéyah Melanie K. Yazzie (bio) This commentary focuses on recent Palestinian solidarity efforts unfolding in Indigenous communities and how these efforts have the potential to expand and strengthen US-based Palestine solidarity movements. One such effort, Diné Solidarity With Palestine (DSWP), is attempting to apply lessons from academic solidarity with Palestine to grassroots organizing and education with Nav…
Decolonizing Development in Diné Bikeyah
In this article, I examine the anti-capitalist and antidevelopment politics that Diné resisters espouse in their critiques of resource extraction in the Navajo Nation. I argue that existing anthropological and historical studies about Diné resistance minimize the specifically anti-capitalist character of this resistance by erasing the capitalist underpinnings of development. I draw from Indigenous feminists, Native studies scholars, and Diné land…
US Imperialism and the Problem of “Culture” in Indigenous Politics
This article aims to articulate a political formation that I term Indigenous internationalist feminism, which centers a critique of US imperialism and is premised on three intellectual and political traditions: radical Indigenous internationalism, Black left feminism, and queer Indigenous feminism. Indigenous internationalist feminism provides a framework for transnational Indigenous practices that seek to build counterhegemonic power with other …
We must make kin to get free
In this article, I ask, how can we draw from acts and forms of kinship to strengthen our dreams of being free? Looking at a specific example of Indigenous political intervention that occurred in January 2017 during the airport protests against President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, I explore the political and analytical possibilities of feminist relationality, particularly relations of care, reciprocity, and abundance, for articulating a practice o…
Red Scare
Reviewed by: Red Scare: The State’s Indigenous Terrorist by Joanne Barker Melanie K. Yazzie Joanne Barker. Red Scare: The State’s Indigenous Terrorist. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. 192 pp. Hardcover, $85.00. Joanne Barker’s Red Scare offers an introduction into “how Indigeneity has been made indistinguishable from terrorism” (110) within discourses of US and Canadian imperialism. Barker uses an Indigenous feminist methodology t…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Navajo (3 works)