PUBLICATIONS
Purchase your copy of Settler Cannabis here!
Dr. Kaitlin Reed published their new book, Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California, this summer. Dr. Reed "connects the historical and ecological dots between the California Gold Rush of the 1850s and the contemporary Green Rush by tracing patterns of settler colonial resource rushing: first gold, then timber, then fish, and now cannabis" Check out a copy from the Cal Poly Humboldt Library or purchase at the link above! Release of new book "Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance" by Tierra Smith on June 27, 2023. This collection of essays examines dynamics of resistance among California Native people and includes two writings from Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy: “The G-O Road: Thirty Years Later” & “Water Is Life: The Flower Dance Ceremony”.
"Polytech to PolyTEK: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Indigenous Science, and the Future Forward Polytechnic University" article by Dr. Kaitlin Reed, Dr. Cutch Risling Baldy, and Dr. Kayla Begay published this year. This article discusses " the role of Native American Studies in building decolonial frameworks for a new polytechnic—polytech to PolyTEK" and explores "the history of cultural knowledge exploitation, Humboldt Native programs and initiatives; the resurgence of Indigenous science and knowledges, and new interdisciplinary initiatives at Humboldt that value NAS as a partner to building polytechnic programming.
Read the article here! 41- Progress Report Summer 2023
