James Fenelon- Lakota/Dakota from Standing Rock Nation will speak at UCSanta Barbara 4/22

James Fenelon- Lakota/Dakota from Standing Rock Nation will speak at UCSanta Barbara 4/22
The Center for New Racial Studies and
the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center present:

James Fenelon
Director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples Studies and Professor of
Sociology,
California State University, San Bernardino

INDIGENOUS CULTURAL SOVEREIGNTY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

American Indian and Native Nation struggles over cultural sovereignty
are related to conflicts that indigenous peoples are involved with
globally: over autonomy, land and resource rights, and about the very
nature of community. Professor Fenelon uses his expertise on the Lakota
struggles for the Black Hills, socio-politically and environmentally, to
consider indigenous struggles in Mexico, New Zealand, India and Chile.
He presents a model for understanding relationships to the land,
“natural resources” and indigenous visions of community and leadership.
He shows how these struggles differ from and indeed are opposed to
contemporary capitalism and neo-liberal domination from the global to
the local, in terms of cultural sovereignty


James Fenelon is Director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples Studies
and Professor of Sociology at California State University, San
Bernardino. He is Lakota/Dakota from Standing Rock (Nation). He has
taught internationally, and works with indigenous peoples both globally
and with US urban groups. His newest book (with Thomas D. Hall)
Indigenous Peoples and Globalization, reflects his current research and
writing, combining his background in American Indians’ struggles for
sovereignty with closely related issues internationally. Prof. Fenelon
is now working with Indigenous Scholars in Chile on the Mapuche
struggle, and with Southern California Native Nation’s research on
genocide and racism.

Thursday April 22, 2010
4:00PM
Flying A Studios Room, UCEN