Author Sherman Alexie. Photo: Tulane Public Relations, Creative Commons Attribution A lot of folks have been asking me what Native American authors they should read or even what books to teach since #MeToo accusations of sexual harassment against Sherman Alexie came to light this past March. I wrote about it at Yes! Magazine here: Why Reading Sherman Alexie Was Never Enough: As the #MeToo spotlight moves to Indian Country, epidemic violence against Native women meets tokenism in publishing. I will also be interviewed today on Oregon Publi...

by Jacqueline Keeler In 2015, I had the honor of interviewing Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation for Earth Island Journal about his work at the United Nations and role in the creation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and something he told me remained on my mind when I had the opportunity to go the UN for the first time. “In the UN, you have a number of nations and everyone has their own agenda. And part of that agenda is land and indigenous people are a problem because we have pri...

On April 30th, I will be delivering my first ever keynote at the 2017 White Privilege conference. Below is the text and some of the slides I will be sharing. Enjoy! - Jacqueline Keeler My Keynote at the 2017 White Privilege Conference Kansas City, Missouri How Standing Rock Made the Military Occupation of Native Nations Visible Oceti Sakowin Camp, October 2016  photo credit: Jacqueline Keeler  Good morning! Yá’át’ééh Shik’éí dóó shidine’é Shí éí Jacqueline Keeler yinishyé—My name is Jacqueline Keeler. My preferred pronouns...

Last night, I spoke at a 350PDX panel on Standing Rock and was asked to summarize what Standing Rock means to me and what my "lessons learned" were. I recalled a statement about Standing Rock made by my friend Joleen Brown (Oglala Lakota), editor of Native Hoop Magazine: "Even after everything they did to us—how they tried to damage us to make us lesser than we were...that we can still make a stand like this? When you see the two cultures facing off, I am so proud. You can clearly see which is the better culture." I called Standing Rock a...