Video

DAY 1 KEYNOTE

Speaker: Melanie K. Yazzie (Diné), Ph.D. - Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation

Dr. Melanie K. Yazzie will discuss her co-authored book Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation (Bordertown Violence Working Group: David Correia, Nick Estes, Jennifer Denetdale; Foreword by Radmilla Cody and Brandon Benallie).  The book investigates and explains the violent dynamics of bordertowns.  It is a manual for navigating the violence Native peoples experience in reservation bordertowns and a manifesto for Indigenous liberation built on traditions of Native resistance.