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Check out this website for access to the audio archives for the radio show. To listen, just click on the title of any given episode. Also, in addition to having them here on this site, by late May all past episodes (five year’s worth!) will be found through iUniversity on iTunes (right now you can find 2009 episodes already there). Any questions? You can write to me — the show’s sole producer and host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, at: indigenouspolitics@wesufm.org. Mahalo!
Episode from 5-1-12
Join your host, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, for an, for an episode featuring a public presentation and an interview. The first part features A talk by دانة علوان (Dana Olwan) made at an event*, “Canada and Israel: Allies in apartheid, allies in colonialism,” recently held in Vancouver, which asked: How does the Canadian government’s […]
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Stop the Desecration at Rattle Snake Island and Kawaiaha`o
Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for a two-part episode that focuses on protests related to two ongoing desecration cases. Part I features an interview with James BrownEagle, traditional leader of the Elem Pomo Tribe, who addresses the current struggle to protext Rattle Snake Islands, which is […]
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Episode #1: IRS seizes and auctions Crow Creek Sioux Land
Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an episode that features Brandon J. Sazue, Sr., Chairman of Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. He will discuss the politics of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) auctioning off 7,100 acres of tribal land on December 3, 2009 to […]
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Episode #1: Tribal Recognition, Acknowledgment, and Termination: U.S. State and Federal Policy
Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for a selection of presentations from the first Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) conference held May 21 - 23, 2009 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which drew more than 600 scholars from 16 countries and dozens of tribal […]
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J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. is an associate professor of anthropology and American studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Her first book, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity, was published by Duke University Press (2008).
She is currently embarking on two new book monographs: The Kingdom Come? Hawaiian Nationalism and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality, and Hawaiian New England: The Grammar of American Colonialism.
She has co-edited special journal issues: “Migrating Feminisms,” Women’s Studies International Forum (1998);”Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge,” The Contemporary Pacific (2001); and “Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of the Waka,” Pacific Studies (2007).
Her essays have been published in the following journals: SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly, Social Text, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Mississippi Review, Amerasia Journal, The Contemporary Pacific, Pacific Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum, and American Indian Quarterly.
She also sits on the following editorial boards: Settler Colonial Studies, American Indian Quarterly; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Hulili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being; and Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. From 2005-2010, she also served as an editorial board member of Journal of Pacific History.
From 2005-2008, Kauanui was part of a six-person steering committee that co-founded the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). From 2008-2009, she served as an acting council member. In May 2009, she was elected as a council member for a three year term. For more information, see: http://naisa.org/