Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Indigenous Studies about their new books.

Decolonising Colonial Collections: Repatriation and Cultural Competence in Museums with guest Marika Duczynski

March 26, 2026

Decolonising Colonial Collections

Marika Duczynski

The Cultural Competence Collective welcomes Marika Duczynski onto the podcast to discuss cultural competence, decolonial practices, and community-led…

Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez, "The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire" (Duke UP, 2025)

March 21, 2026

The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire

Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez

The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire (Duke UP, 2025) tells the history of the making and unmaking of empire …

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller eds., "The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages" A Special Issue of Genocide Studies International" (Vol 16, No 2)

March 21, 2026

The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller eds.
Hosted by Kelly McFall

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller, eds., The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages: A Special Issue of Genocide Studie…

Lisa Nakamura, "The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

March 18, 2026

The Inattention Economy

Lisa Nakamura
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet (U Minnesota Press, 2026) by Dr. Lisa Nakamura challenges the widespread myth that the …

Joseph Weiss, "Irreconcilable: Indigeneity and the Violence of Colonial Erasure in Contemporary Canada" (UNC Press, 2026)

March 17, 2026

Irreconcilable

Joseph Weiss

Since the early 2000s, the Canadian government has attempted reconciliation with Indigenous Nations through varied efforts: treaty processes, governme…

Yanshuo Zhang, "Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

March 14, 2026

Creative Belonging

Yanshuo Zhang
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain un…

Olivier Hein, "Borneo: The History of an Enigma" (Hurst, 2026)

March 12, 2026

Borneo

Olivier Hein
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

Borneo—split between two countries, home to some of the world’s oldest rainforests and a vast array of animal and plant life—is back in the news. The …

Paul Gillingham, "Mexico: A 500-Year History" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025)

March 7, 2026

Mexico

Paul Gillingham
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

Mexico is among the most unique nations in the world, writes Northwestern University historian Paul Gillingham in Mexico: A 500-Year History (Atlantic…

Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw, "Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

March 1, 2026

Fleeced

Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Not everything about wool is warm and fuzzy. Wool, for millennia the cold climate textile fiber, has a long relationship to war, both in terms of supp…

Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons, "The Sons of Gunshooter:  A Navajo Resistance Story" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

February 26, 2026

The Sons of Gunshooter

Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons
Hosted by Mary Reynolds

In 1919, the brother of one of the West’s most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation. Part history, part…

Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission

February 25, 2026

Found in Translation

In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah talks to Dr. Laura Rademaker (Australian National University), the author of Found in …

Cultural Competence Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All: Talking culturally responsive teaching with guest Associate Professor Dr Remy Low

February 25, 2026

Cultural Competence Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All

In this episode, we are delighted to be joined by educator and researcher Associate Professor Remy Low to explore what cultural competence and cultura…

Allison Powers, "Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)

February 23, 2026

Arbitrating Empire

Allison Powers
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law (Oxford UP, 2024) by Dr. Allison Powers offers a new history o…

Marc James Carpenter, "The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest" (Yale UP, 2025)

February 13, 2026

The War on Illahee

Marc James Carpenter
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest (Yale UP, 2025) by Marc James Carpenter is a history book about histo…

Jameson R. Sweet, "Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

February 9, 2026

Mixed-Blood Histories

Jameson R. Sweet
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry Native Americans: racially and legally differentiated from nonmixed Indigenous people by U.S. gover…

Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026) Revisited

February 8, 2026

A Protest History of the United States

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Hosted by Sullivan Summer

In December 2025, writer, civil rights attorney, playwright, speaker, and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Glo…

“You Sound So Australian”: From Being Read to Rewriting the Room with guest Zindzi Okenyo

February 6, 2026

“You Sound So Australian”

The National Centre for Cultural Competence

Welcome to the first episode of The Cultural Competence Collective podcast! For our first episode, we are joined by the multi-talented actress, musici…

Samuel Holley-Kline, "In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)

February 3, 2026

In the Shadow of El Tajín

Samuel Holley-Kline
Hosted by Rachel Newman

Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination…

Allison Caine, "Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

February 2, 2026

Restless Ecologies

Allison Caine
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In the high Andean grasslands 4,500 meters above sea level, Quechua alpaca herders live on the edges of glaciers that have retreated more rapidly in t…

Brahim El Guabli, "Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences" (U California Press, 2025)

January 28, 2026

Desert Imaginations

Brahim El Guabli
Hosted by Ibrahim Fawzy

Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences (U California Press, 2025) traces the cultural and intellectual histories th…