PEOPLES: The Indigeneity Collaboratory was created in 2020, by founding director Jessica Bissett Perea, with funding from the Feminist Research Institute and the Davis Humanities Institute at the University of California, Davis. Our Collaboratory gathers together an intergenerational network of scholars, artists, and activists who are committed to asking Indigenous-led and Indigeneity-centered questions to generate transformative possibilities for more just futures locally and globally.
PLACES: The places in which we reside hold the histories and knowledges of Indigenous Peoples from time immemorial. These ancestral connections to waters and lands precede our work, both in language and place. The Indigeneity Collaboratory acknowledges UC Davis’s occupation of unceded territories of Patwin and Miwok Peoples, whose responsibilities to and relationships with their lands and waters continue to this day. The intellectual spaces created by Critical Indigenous Studies scholars guide our efforts to uplift relational ways of being, knowing, and doing.
PRACTICES: Our Collaboratory aims to better understand the densities and significance of Indigeneity in its many forms, including is/as an idea, analytic, and practice. We are committed to working with, by, and for Native American and Indigenous communities to advance multi-modal and multi-sensory methods, theories, and praxes (e.g., embodied knowledges, oral/aural traditions, subsistence foodways, etc.).
PLACES: The places in which we reside hold the histories and knowledges of Indigenous Peoples from time immemorial. These ancestral connections to waters and lands precede our work, both in language and place. The Indigeneity Collaboratory acknowledges UC Davis’s occupation of unceded territories of Patwin and Miwok Peoples, whose responsibilities to and relationships with their lands and waters continue to this day. The intellectual spaces created by Critical Indigenous Studies scholars guide our efforts to uplift relational ways of being, knowing, and doing.
PRACTICES: Our Collaboratory aims to better understand the densities and significance of Indigeneity in its many forms, including is/as an idea, analytic, and practice. We are committed to working with, by, and for Native American and Indigenous communities to advance multi-modal and multi-sensory methods, theories, and praxes (e.g., embodied knowledges, oral/aural traditions, subsistence foodways, etc.).