Index
Aboriginal Choreographers Workshop, 135
Absolon, Kathleen E., 147
academia, 2, 67, 214, 272, 298
African American dance, 20, 55, 57
Afro-futurism, 223
Afro-Haitian dance, 129
Ahmed, Sara, 54
Ailey, Alvin, 20
Akimel O’odham, 158
Alaska, 43, 204–5, 228–29, 233, 251, 255. See also Alutiiq
Albright, Ann Cooper, 46
Alcantara-Camacho, Dakota, 103, 107, 110, 113–14, 117, 125
Alexander technique, 46
Alexie, Sherman, 30
Allegany Seneca territory, 285
Allen, Jessica Marisol, 137
Allen, Paula Gunn, 52
Alutiiq, 43, 65, 201, 203–6, 208, 225–26, 287, 351n17. See also Alaska; Lukin Linklater, Tanya
American Dance Festival, 19
Andersen, Hans Christian, 130
Anishinaabe, 25, 153, 171, 273, 284, 291, 294
Anishinaabeg, 207
anthropology, 11, 49, 81, 180, 267, 269, 278; and dance, 30, 32, 59; and reciprocity, 105–6; and violence, 208
Aoki, Aretha, 231–34, 248–49, 254
Aotearoa (New Zealand), 64, 69, 71, 75, 160, 167, 281, 302; and Atamira Dance Company, 95; and British colonization, 81; and decolonization, 4; and discovery by Kupe (Polynesian), 88; and Indigenous dance artists, 19, 64, 107; and legal discourses in, 87; and Mitimiti, 78, 100, 107, 126
appropriation, 34, 47, 106, 181, 189, 298; and contemporary dance, 266; and race and power, 28; and reciprocity, 124; and violence, 188
Archibald, Jo-Ann, 51
archives, 39–44, 46, 218, 226, 265, 282; and colonization, 24, 41–42; and dance as, 44; and dance scholars, 15, 40–41; and memory, 40; and performance, 42–43
Arvin, Maile, 36, 186, 267, 269, 302
Ashbee, Daina, 273
Askren, Mique’l. See Dangeli, Mique’l
Atamira Dance Company, 114–15; and Jack Gray, 4, 88, 93, 95, 110, 113, 117, 122; and Mitimiti (dance work), 64, 79, 82, 84–85, 88, 95–97, 100, 110, 113; and Mitimiti (place), 78, 101
Attawapiskat, 207
Auckland, 102, 111, 113, 123; and Atamira Dance Company, 64, 95, 100, 113; and Jack Gray, 78, 82, 100, 112–13; and Mitimiti, 79, 84, 96, 100, 107, 112, 120, 123; and Q Theatre, 84, 96, 107, 112–13, 120; and University of Auckland, 76
audience, 6–9, 119–20, 178–79, 239, 263, 265, 287; and contemporary dance, 98; and Clare Croft, 53; and Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 169–71, 173; and expectations, 35; and Indigenous resistance, 209; and Tanya Lukin Linklater, 204, 226, 283; and Mitimiti, 95, 98–99, 104, 108–9, 111, 113, 124; numbers, 8, 65, 151, 170; and Of Bodies of Elements, 165; and sensate knowledge, 154; and SHORE, 229, 233, 248; and Rulan Tangen, 136, 138, 188; and Waitangi Treaty Grounds, 71; as white, 170, 262; as witnesses, 7, 9, 80, 94; and Wolf: A Transformation, 295
Australia, 5, 55, 60, 67, 165, 261, 264, 281; and Aboriginal Karrabing Film Collective, 43, 219; and Frances Ring, 115, 117; and SHORE, 66, 251, 254; and Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival, 259. See also Narrm (Melbourne)
Avelar, Idelber, 180
Avilar, Homer, 143
Azaria, Norma, 196
Azunun, Nan Xhiv (Juana Brito Bernal), 192
Balanchine, George, 39
Baldwin, Melissa, 269
ballet, 42, 46, 54, 182; American, 19, 39; and Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 143, 169; and Eurocentrism, 15, 140; and Sarracina Littlebird, 158; and Rulan Tangen, 130, 138–41, 143, 169, 173, 182
ballet folklorico, 129
Bangarra Dance Theatre, 115
Bardi, 60
Benally, Natalie, 159
Benton-Banai, Eddy, 291, 293–94
Berlant, Lauren, 217
Bernal, Tohil Fidel Brito, 192
Beyond Settler Time, 282
Bharata Natyam, 46
Black Choreographers Moving toward the 21st Century, 19
Black dance, 19–20
Blackfoot, 129
Bobb, Sid, 136
Bobkoff, Ned, 195
Body-Mind Centering, 48, 50, 272
Bonnington, Mark, 85
Borelli, Melissa Blanco, 51
Bragin, Naomi, 13
Bryan, Hilary, 46–47
Buck, Sadie, 141
Burdeau, George, 182, 184–85, 188
Burt, Ramsey, 48
Butler, Judith, 223
butoh, 140
Byrd, Jodi A., 78
Byron Chief Moon, 273
California, 11, 33, 44, 81, 87, 137, 217, 250, 299; and Tony Cerda, 241; and genocide, 12; and Jack Gray, 100, 103; and land loss, 51; and University of California Berkeley (UCB), 11–12, 103, 270; University of California, Los Angeles, 225; University of California Riverside (UCR), 103, 119, 127, 133–34, 146, 152, 158, 160, 191, 302. See also Los Angeles; Riverside; San Francisco
Canada, 156, 159, 206–7, 211–12, 264, 275–76, 281, 290; and Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, 130; and funding for Indigenous dance, 167; and Indigenous ancestry claims, 34; and Indigenous scholars in, 7; and Tanya Lukin Linklater, 65, 195; and national parks, 290; and Peterborough, 65, 195; and reciprocity, 105; and Refuge Rock, 65; and Six Nations Woodlands Cultural Center, 137; and Rulan Tangen, 182, 184; and Two Row Wampum, 289; and Wolf: A Transformation, 291. See also Toronto, Vancouver
capitalism, 9, 21–22, 165, 218, 222, 224–25, 227
Castro, Eduardo Viveiros de, 5, 180
Cerda, Tony, 241
Chamorro, 103
Chartrand, Yvonne, 195, 275, 301
Chatterjea, Ananya, 3, 13–14, 20, 59, 148–50, 304
Chazan, May, 269
Cheyenne, 104
Chicasaw, 78
China, 181
Chochenyo, 305
choreocentricity, 13
choreography, 13–14, 21, 46; and Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 147, 153, 155, 171, 176, 179; and “Indigenous choreography,” 19, 25; and Emily Johnson, 228–29, 233, 257; and Mitimiti, 79, 106; and relationality, 61; and SHORE, 231; and somatics, 47; and Rulan Tangen, 135, 137, 150, 158, 169, 179; and Wolf: A Transformation, 293
Chumash, 32
Chunky Moves, 262
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, 127
Closed Cultural Protocol Ceremony, 67, 259–61
Club O’Noodles, 51
Collins, Anthony Thosh, 137, 158–59
Colombia, 140
coloniality, 4–7, 98–100, 170, 179, 220–21, 282, 299; and capitalism, 67, 148, 150; and dance, 5–6, 50, 61; and dance studies, 39, 48, 60; and genocide, 2, 25, 181; and Indigenous studies, 32, 36; and Mitimiti, 78, 93, 116, 118, 121, 124, 126; and modernity, 18, 22; and ongoing nature of, 5, 9–10, 13, 25, 54, 80, 92, 121, 219; and reciprocity, 81, 105; and somatics, 48; and structures of, 7, 60, 271
colonizing, 170, 182, 205–6, 220, 224, 267; agenda, 33; and archives, 40–42; and choreography, 13; and contemporary dance, 6, 14, 16; and eradication, 62; and extraction, 175; and food, 166–67; and genealogies, 68; and Indigenous peoples, 19; and Indigenous studies, 44; and Mitimiti, 126; and modern dance, 5; and photography, 121, 125; and race, 21–22; and racism, 17; and reciprocity, 107; and relationality, 3, 24; technologies, 121; and term “Indigenous,” 32; and the university, 13, 270
Colorado, 166
Confederated Villages of Lisjan, 12. See also University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
contemporary dance, 14, 25–27, 63, 78, 99, 145, 151–52, 274–75, 298; aesthetic values of, 65, 176; as art form, 57; and coloniality, 5–6; and dance studies, 23; and Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 174–75, 180; and funding of, 169; and genealogies of, 23, 26, 174; and Jack Gray, 93; and Indigenous contemporary dance, 6, 98, 137, 188, 274, 277, 281, 283; makers, 6, 24, 49; making tools, 19, 265–66, 274; and Randy Martin, 221–22; and Mitimiti, 120; and modernism, 18; and ODC, 244, 251; and reciprocity, 27; and relationality, 27, 49; and SHORE, 255; and somatics, 48
Convergence: Currents of Contemporary Aboriginal Dance, 274
Coombe, Rosemary, 124
Cooper, Daniel, 85
Cortes, Jesus “Jacoh,” 129, 132–34, 173
Coulthard, Glen, 2, 7, 30, 104–5, 267
Coumans, Hadrian, 103–4
Coyote Arts Percussive Association, 273
Cree, 8, 17, 120, 226, 264, 273, 275
critical race studies, 3
Croft, Clare, 53–54
Cruz Bank, Ojeya, 59–60
Cuicacalli Dance School and Company, 173
Culture Evolves, 264
Dance of Melbourne, The, 264
Dance Research Journal, 4, 178
Dancers of Damelahamid, 273
dance studies, 15, 23, 30–32, 47–48, 53–55, 59–60, 68; and academy, 27, 45, 50; and archives, 40–41, 43; and Black dance, 19; and bodies, 28, 38–39; and choreocentricity of, 13; and Indigenous dance, 147, 277, 282; and Indigenous studies, 3, 15, 18, 29–30, 57; and Mitimiti, 80; and nonwhite European dancers, 20; and precarity, 218
Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 127, 146, 154–71, 173–76, 179–81, 185–86, 191–92; and dance scholars, 148; and Of Bodies of Elements, 64, 132; and relationality, 147, 150–51; and Walking the Edge of Water, 153
Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back, 4
Dancing Salmon Home (film), 103
Dangeli, Mique’l, 9, 13, 43, 60–61, 274, 276–77, 302, 304
decolonization, 4, 31, 98, 140, 149, 206; and resurgence, 16
Dee Das, Joanna, 20
DeFrantz, Thomas, 5, 12, 15, 20, 40, 53, 302
Deloria, Vine, 2
Diaz, Junot, 4
Dick, Beau, 174–75
dispossession, 2, 9, 60, 98, 207, 286–87
Divercity, 263
Doctor, Peter, 286
Donnelly, Merindah, 254, 256, 262, 304
Doyle, Jennifer, 25
Driskoll, Quo-Li, 52
Dunham, Katherine, 20
Easton, Te Arahi, 96–97, 108–9, 115–17
Elswit, Kate, 40
embodiment, 29, 31, 40, 48, 55, 62
ethnography, 51
Evening of Earth and Sky, 178, 180
Feliciano, Rita, 171
feminist studies, 3, 50, 65, 186
Feuillet notation, 41–42
Finding Nemo, 159
Firmino-Castillo, María Regina, 9, 44, 105, 180, 302–3; and genocide, 22; and Indigenous dance, 61–62, 149; and “pluriverse,” 4, 170; and relationality, 2; and Rulan Tangen, 148
Fjelheim, Marte S., 192
flexibility, 136, 218, 222–23, 303
Fobister, Waawaate, 273
Foster, Susan Leigh, 20, 40–42, 51, 54, 221, 302–3; and bodies, 38; and choreography, 13
four Rs (respect, relationship, responsibility, and reciprocity), 190
Fujikane, Candace, 222
Fulani, 129
Fuller, Loie, 46
future/futurity, 52, 55, 98, 126, 175, 264; and archives, 41; and capitalism, 222; dystopic, 219; and Laura Harjo, 222; Indigenous, 7, 63, 118, 186, 275, 289; and Emily Johnson, 238, 257; and relationality, 61, 222; settler, 31; and Rulan Tangen, 145, 151–52
Garcia, Maura, 227–28
Gaup, Sarraka, 192
genealogy, 16, 18–19, 33, 51–52, 89, 98, 185, 298–99; and colonization, 68; and Mitimiti, 80, 86; of modern dance, 5–6, 23, 26–27, 50, 62, 174; and somatic practices, 48; and whakapapa, 78, 89, 91
genocide, 20–24, 181, 207, 209, 298, 318n80; of California Indian people, 12; in Canada, 212; cultural, 60; in Guatemala, 61; and land, 9; and modernity, 18
George-Graves, Nadine, 20
Ghostly Matters, 282
Giersdorf, Jens Richard, 40, 54–55
Gitxsan, 273
Global South, 5
Goeman, Mishuana, 51, 58–59, 205, 208, 220, 282–83, 286
Goenpul, 2
Goldstein, Alyosha, 33
González, Anita, 20
Gordon, Ain, 245
Gordon, Avery, 282
Gotesman, Victor, 248
Gottschild, Brenda Dixon, 19, 30, 39, 48
Gould, Corrina, 12–13, 16, 217, 304
Graham, Martha, 20, 22, 26, 90, 130, 140, 142, 188
Gray, Jack, 71, 77, 104, 116–17, 122–25, 301–2; and Atamira Dance Company, 4, 110, 113, 122; and contemporary dance, 98; and Mitimiti, 64, 79, 81, 95, 99–100, 103, 106, 111–14; and Mitimiti (place), 100–101, 111; and Pepeha, 91, 93; and relationality, 9; and SHORE, 241; and University of California Riverside (UCR), 103
Gray, Tanemahuta, 75
Grenier, Margaret, 273
Guåhan, 117
Guam, 117
Guerrero, Quetzal, 128, 133, 137, 177
Haakanson Jr., Sven, 208
haka, 71–73, 75–76, 83–86, 88, 114, 116
Happy Frejo, 137
Harjo, Laura, 45, 56, 220, 227, 230, 281; on knowledge, 222, 224, 266, 272; and relationality, 1–2, 42, 56
Harkins, Elisa, 287–88
Harney, Stefano, 223–24
Harper, Stephen, 207
Haudenosaunee, 226–27, 285, 289
Hau’ofa’, Epeli, 220
Hawai‘i, 31, 87–88, 100, 125, 132, 222. See also Honolulu
Hay, Deborah, 49
Hepi, Amrita, 264
hip-hop, 113, 128, 142, 221, 225
Hitchcock, Baden, 263
Hokianga, 69, 81, 88, 100, 102, 122, 125
Honolulu, 88, 119. See also Hawai‘i
Hopkins, Candace, 174
Hoshimi-Caines, Hanako, 287–88
Huchiun, 181
Hunka, 184
Hunt, Sarah, 270
Hwëch’, Tr’ondëk, 68, 272, 284
Idle No More, 30
Indian Residential Schools, 15, 211–12, 344n40
Indigeneity, 78, 80, 91, 104, 150; contemporary, 118; and Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 148–49, 170, 180; defiant, 27; discourses on, 7, 186; in Mitimiti, 125–26; ontologies of, 270, 281; and SHORE, 255; understandings of, 36
Indigenous: abundance, 257; activism, 2, 31; anti-colonialism, 2; Choreographers at Riverside (ICR), 276; choreography, 25, 49, 175; dance artists, 1, 3, 5–7, 24, 26–27, 46, 49, 175, 265–66, 271, 274, 281, 284; epistemologies, 49, 270; foods, 65, 151, 166; futurities, 58, 118, 264, 277; identity, 32–35, 157, 175, 181; knowledges, 147, 154–55, 176, 266, 276; Knowledges Conference, 195, 198; language, 37, 49, 144, 152, 268–69, 272; metaphysics, 2, 92; ontologies, 60, 105; precarity, 227; reciprocity, 120, 124; refusal, 67, 267–69, 271; relationality, 4–5, 66–68, 149–50, 170; resilience, 107, 256; resistance, 195, 204, 209; resurgence, 7, 268; studies, 3, 14, 18, 25–32, 44, 50–57, 165, 262, 267, 271; studies scholars, 2, 30, 36, 42–43, 58, 145; temporalities, 37, 55; women, 42, 65, 192, 201, 206–8, 210–13, 263; worldviews, 10–11, 27, 147, 171, 276; writers, 51, 67, 208, 220, 267, 278, 280, 282–83
Indigenous Women of the Americas Defenders of Mother Earth Treaty, 192
International Delegate Protocol Brief, 259
In the Absence Of, 263
Ishi: The Last of the Yahi, 11–12
Íviatem (Cahuilla), 298
Jackson, Moana, 70
Jacob, Michelle M., 30
Jannok, Sofia, 192
Johnson, Emily, 61, 66, 227–29, 230–38, 241–242, 244–46, 248–57, 277, 301
Jones, Daystar/Rosalie, 148, 178, 195, 283–84, 291, 293, 301
Joseph, Jillene, 190
Justice, Daniel Heath, 42
Kaha:wi Dance Theater, 276
Kamira, Robyn, 89, 96, 101–2, 113–14, 116–17, 119, 302, 304
Kamira, Takou, 100
Kānaka Maoli, 2, 27, 44, 267, 278. See also hula
Kanien’kehaka, 195, 206. See also Mohawk
Kapampangan, 182
kāwanatanga, 69
K’dee, Ras, 44
Kedhar, Anusha, 14, 57, 176, 179, 303
Kendall, Andrew, 95, 102, 114, 123, 301
Kendall, Diane, 95, 102, 114, 123, 301
Kirkland, Gelsey, 141
Klee, Paul, 175
Kokiri Whakamua, 74
Koroneho, Charles, 4, 26, 90–91, 301
Kotowich, Jeanette, 264–65, 301
Kramer, Lara, 275
Kroeber, Alfred, 11
Kwan, SanSan, 14
Laban Movement Analysis, 272
Laiti, Jenni, 192
Langberg, Krista, 232–34, 248–49, 254
Latour, Bruno, 165
Lenapehoking (New York City), 9, 66, 104, 236–37, 240–41, 254
Lethabo King, Tiffany, 9, 21, 34
Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ), 242
Littlebird, Sarracina, 128, 133, 137, 157–58
Lloyd, David, 222
Lomawaima, Tsianaina, 287
Lopez, Eric Garcia, 128, 143, 158
Lugones, María, 170
Lukin Linklater, Tanya, 42–43, 61, 271, 278, 283, 287, 289, 301; and Mapping Resistances, 195–203; on motherhood, 210, 215; and Refuge Rock, 2010, 65–66, 204–6, 208; and relationality, 9; and Woman and Water, 225–26
Lyons, Richard Scott, 33–36, 185–86
maanakitanga, 64
Máara’yam (Serrano), 298
MacLaurin, Megan, 289
Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), 228
Make Chante, 183
Makuakāne, Patrick, 2
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson, 21, 92, 98, 105, 123, 126
Manning, Erin, 39
Manning, Susan, 19–20, 225, 304
Māori, 69–75, 82–85, 88–89, 99, 103–5, 109, 118, 272; dance artists, 4, 58; and Jack Gray, 4, 64, 78, 80, 93, 114; and Charles Koroneho, 4, 26, 91; and land, 64; and Mitimiti, 78; and Mitimiti (place), 102, 113–14, 124–25, 126; storytelling, 56; and Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, 26, 32; and Te Rarawa, 125; whakaahua, 26, 80; wharenui, 96
Māori Land Court, 74
Mapping Resistances, 195–96, 198–200, 202, 204
Maracle, Lee, 51
Marc, Franz, 175
Marram Nganginu Biik Guurin (We Are Country), 265
Marrugeku, 60
Martin, Randy, 66, 221, 223–25, 228, 257
Marxism, 39
Massachusetts, 182
Mauss, Marcel, 106
McGranahan, Carole, 269
McMann, Jesse, 275
Meherrin Nation, 128
Meraz, Alejandro, 137
Meyer, Manulani Aluli, 44
Michael Mao Company, 142
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg, 4, 207
Midgelow, Vida, 46
Mignolo, Walter, 5, 22, 36, 170
Miguel, Muriel, 175
Minneapolis, 239, 248, 255, 277; and All My Relations Arts, 282; and Emily Johnson, 230–31, 233–34, 238; and PERFORMANCE, 232, 234–35; and SHORE, 66, 230–31, 234–35
Minnesota, 184, 230–32, 234–35, 303
Miranda, Deborah, 44, 51–52, 59, 238, 264
Mitchell, Sam Aros, 61
Mitimiti, 64, 78–89, 91, 93–103, 106–26
modernism, 57, 90, 174, 176, 179, 264; and aesthetic criteria, 23; and dance practices, 19; and dance studies, 29; and Indigenous dance artists, 18; understandings of, 20
modernity, 5–6, 10, 18, 21–24, 27, 54–55, 107
Mohawk, 195, 226–27, 267. See also Kanien’kehaka
Momaday, N. Scott, 188
Montana, 161
Mor, Miguel Valdez, 142
more-than-human/other-than-human, 8, 31, 61, 65, 153, 230, 255, 291; Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 147, 151, 164–65; and precarity, 220; and relationality, 1–2, 151, 164; and SHORE, 257. See also non-human
Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, 2–3, 9
Morgan, Christopher, 278
Morgensen, Scott Lauria, 52
Morunga, Agnes, 86
Moten, Fred, 223–24
motherhood, 210–13
Mucogee, 14
Mumford, Marrie, 162, 190, 302
museums, 43, 49, 63, 174, 211; and archives, 39–40, 226; and Indigenous dance artists, 31; and “museumification,” 107, 278. See also Alutiiq; National Museum of the American Indian
Mvskoke, 1, 42, 56, 159, 220, 266
Nahanee, Wesley, 275–76
NAMING, THE, 135–37
Nanibush, Wanda, 195, 203–4, 208
Narrm (Melbourne), 66, 251–53, 255–56
Nash, Kelly, 82
National Dance Project, 161
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 168–69
National Indigenous Dance Forum, 251, 259, 262
National Museum of the American Indian, 104, 217, 226
National Performance Network, 138
Native Wellness Institute, 161, 190
Native Youth, 159
neoliberal, 21, 56, 218, 222, 224–25, 258
Nevada, 153
New Mexico, 93, 127, 132, 136, 140, 159, 168, 173, 291. See also Santa Fe
New York City, 61, 128, 140, 228, 239, 247–48, 255, 277; and Downtown Dance Festival, 171; and Jack Gray, 100, 103–4; and Emily Johnson, 228; and Lenapehoking, 9, 66, 237; and New York University, 103–4; SHORE, 236–37, 240; and Rulan Tangen, 131, 163, 182
New Zealand, 76, 90, 113, 160, 264; and Atamira Dance Company, 95; and Mitimiti, 78, 102; and Treaty of Waitangi, 69, 71. See also Aotearoa; Auckland; Wellington
No Dakota Access Pipeline (No DAPL), 31
non-human, 44, 60. See also more-than-human/other-than-human
Ode’min Giizis Festival, 195
Of Bodies of Elements, 64, 147, 155, 157, 163, 165, 177, 191; at San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, 171; and “Sticks” section, 142–43; and Rulan Tangen, 127, 142, 161; at University of California Riverside (UCR), 132, 158. See also Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE)
Ohlone, 12, 32, 44, 103, 217, 241, 244, 250, 271, 278–80, 298, 304–5
Ojibwe, 17, 33, 50, 275, 284, 291
Olson, Michelle, 68, 272–73, 284, 301, 304
Opotiki-Mai-Tawhiti, 73
Ortman, Laura, 287–88
Oyate Okadakiciyapi Festival, 184, 277, 282
Pamintuan, Tina, 204, 208–9, 214
Pasion, Toni Temehana, 95, 119, 301
Payómkawichum (Luiseño), 298
People Have Never Stopped Dancing, The, 3, 63
performance studies, 3–4, 54, 58, 61, 103
Peridance Dance Company, 142
Pether, Joshua, 264
Piatote, Beth, 51
Pigram, Dalisa, 60
Piscataway, 163
Plant, Pennie Opal, 192
Pomo, 44, 143, 153, 241, 245, 250
postmodern dance, 18, 54, 221, 225
Pōtiki-Bryant, Louise, 58, 301
Pou, Ngaa, 73
Pound, Ezra, 174
Povinelli, Elizabeth, 43, 165, 219
powwow, 167–68, 171, 275, 293, 295; and Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 143, 152, 156; and Kalani Queypo, 174; and Rulan Tangen, 130, 138–40, 163, 182–83
precarity, 66–67, 217–21, 223–24, 227, 256–58
Profeta, Katherine, 40–41
Purkayastha, Prarthana, 40
Qingming Festival, 81
queerness, 7, 52–54, 56, 261, 264; and Māori, 75
Raheja, Michelle, 35, 145, 304
Ramirez, Rayna, 37
Rancon, Serena, 128
Randall, Mariaa, 263
Ravensbergen, Lisa Cooke, 17
Raymond, Rosanna, 111
Razack, Sherine, 23
Razzle Dazzle (Richard Raguda), 241–42, 245
reciprocity, 64, 69, 106–7, 117–20, 190, 269–70, 282, 298, 300; and coloniality, 81, 105; and Glen Coulthard, 104–5; and dance, 27, 105, 150; and Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 176, 180; and economy of, 19; and Jack Gray, 78; and Indigenous practices of, 124; and Mitimiti, 79, 99; as place-based, 104, 116; and practices of, 26; and Rulan Tangen, 65, 161; and George “Tink” Tinker, 45
Recollet, Karyn, 8, 61, 120, 226, 264, 277, 304
Red Skin, White Masks, 130
Refuge Rock, 65–66, 195, 204–5, 208, 212, 214. See also Lukin Linklater, Tanya
refusal, 63, 67, 258, 264, 268, 299; and academia, 266–71, 282; and reclamation, 278; as self-determination, 68; silent, 89; and Rosy Simas, 277–78, 282–83; and Audra Simpson, 267
Reihana-Morunga, Tia, 95, 110, 301–2
relationality, 61, 127, 164–65, 167, 187, 220–22, 277, 282, 301; as abundance, 66–67, 224–25; and dance, 3, 9, 26, 31, 297, 299; and Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 65, 150–52, 160, 176, 180; discussions of, 1; as enacted, 19, 65; María Regina Firmino-Castillo, 44; and Laura Harjo, 1–2, 42, 56, 266; and Indigenous dance, 6, 24, 26, 49, 68, 170; and Indigenous experiences of, 5; and Indigenous forms of, 3–4, 149–50; in Indigenous studies, 25; and Indigenous worldviews, 10, 27; and interdependence, 105, 222; and Tanya Lukin Linklater, 65; and Mitimiti, 99, 116; as reciprocal, 27, 104, 175; as resurgent, 7–8, 11; in SHORE, 229, 234, 258; and struggles of, 68; and Rulan Tangen, 148, 151; and understandings of, 2–3, 10
relationship, 1–2, 15–16, 50–52, 269–70, 277, 289–90, 299–300; with ancestors, 13, 278; with animals, 291; building, 279; and choreography, 135; and Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 168, 173; and dismantling of colonial structures, 13; and diversity, 180; ethical, 60; and four Rs, 190; and gender, 205; to Indigeneity, 170; and land and place, 8; and Tanya Lukin Linklater, 225–26; and Mitimiti, 79, 89–90, 103–4, 106, 109; and modern dance, 21–22; Of Bodies of Elements, 165; ontological, 5, 62; and reciprocity/reciprocal, 11, 105, 107, 116, 164, 180, 297; and relationality, 147; sentient, 43; and Rulan Tangen, 184–85, 187, 189; and welcoming protocol, 12–13
reservations, 74, 137, 153, 161, 166, 168, 220, 276, 286, 291
respect, 77, 106, 161, 190, 207, 282, 294, 299–300; and Indigenous dance artists, 5; and Indigenous knowledge, 269; and Indigenous worldview, 11; and maanakitanga, 64, 94; and Mitimiti, 79; and relationality, 68, 147; and sensory knowledge, 44; and Rulan Tangen, 149, 187; and George “Tink” Tinker, 43, 45
resurgence, 6–7, 16, 30, 265, 268, 270
Riddu Riddu Indigenous Festival, 192
Rifkin, Mark, 30, 33, 37, 45, 52, 55–56, 226, 282
Rivera, Carlos, 275
Robinson, Dylan, 1, 154, 266–69, 272
Rodriques, Lis, 5
Rose, Deborah Bird, 6
round dance, 30, 113, 121, 132
Royal, Taiaroa, 96–97, 107–8, 115–16
Royal, Te Ahukaramū Charles, 4, 26, 32, 51, 56, 58–59, 93
Running Wolf, Myrton, 175
Russo, Ann, 23
Rutter, Deborah, 163
S7aplek, 61
Salazar, Nichole, 127, 134, 142, 153, 157, 165, 172
Sami, 192
Samson, Lumhe, 159
San Francisco, 81, 132, 153, 250, 255, 286; Bay Guardian, 171; Cuicacalli Dance School and Company, 173; Ethnic Dance Festival, 171; and ODC Theater, 244; and Ohlone, 32; SHORE, 241; and Yelamu, 66
Santa Fe, 127, 136, 159, 168, 173, 291
Santo Domingo, 93, 128, 146–47, 158
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, 1
Sayers, Anne Marie, 217
Sayers-Roods, Kanyon, 278, 280, 304
SEEDS: Re Generation, 153, 161
Seminole, 14
Seneca, 48, 58, 141, 158–59, 205, 220, 274, 283–86
settler colonialism, 16–17, 34–35, 52, 61, 220, 286; and Britain, 69, 256; and conceptions of time, 56–57, 63, 225, 227; and contemporary dance, 6; and erasism of, 10, 59; and knowledge production, 266–67; and legal requirements, 57; and modernity, 55; as ongoing, 148, 219; and precarity, 219; and state, 206, 208, 222, 267; and structures of, 8, 268
Shafner, Shawn, 241
Shea Murphy, Jacqueline, 211, 237, 242, 246, 265
Shelikhov, Grigorii, 204
SHORE, 66–67, 227–32, 234–37, 240–47, 249–58
Shoshone, 128
Siegel, Marcia, 54
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 30, 51, 78, 274
Simas, Rosy, 48, 50, 67, 274–75, 277–78, 281–86, 301
Simpson, Audra, 8, 36, 52, 64, 166, 206–7, 255, 267
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 4, 45, 51–52, 175, 268–70
Sitten, Yvette, 110
Skrelunas, Tony, 167
slavery, 19–21, 40, 157, 181, 221, 223
Smith, Bernadette, 153, 245–46, 248–49
Smith, David, 241, 245–46, 248–49
Smith, Natalie, 241
Smith, Paul Chaat, 217
Smith, Santee, 66, 226–27, 276, 301
Smith, Suzette, 251
social media, 77, 79, 98, 102, 114–15, 119, 158, 192; and #mitimiti campaign, 100, 112, 122
Soto, Carla, 135
sovereignty, 201, 206–7; and English Crown, 69; Indigenous, 268–69, 289; sensate, 45; settler, 52
Spakwus Slulem Dancers, 275
Spence, Theresa, 207
Spiderwoman Theater, 175
Srinivasan, Priya, 20, 22, 40, 46, 59
St. Denis, Ruth, 20
Stuckey, Sterling, 40
Swain, Rachael, 44, 55, 60, 260
Swampy, 17
Sweden, 160
Takatāpui, 75
Talking Stick Festival, 272–74, 276
TallBear, Kim, 33–35, 43, 52, 186–87
Tanana Athabascan, 51
Tangen, Rulan, 130, 135, 148–54, 167–69, 173, 181–88, 301; and approach to dance making, 175; and choreography of, 141, 179, 264; and Anthony Thosh Collins, 159; and Costo Medal in Education, Teaching, and Service, 146; as founder and director of Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 64, 127, 129; and identity, 65; on Indigenous dance, 178; as mentor, 165; and Of Bodies of Elements, 142, 177; and Philippines, 156; and powwow dance, 138–39; at Riverside dance workshop, 127–29, 132–35, 141–42, 144–45
Taunton, Carla, 42
Tauranga, 72
Taylor, Diana, 61–62
Teaiwa, Teresia, 36
television, 100
Tempo Dance Festival NZ, 110–11
Te Puni Kokiri (Realizing Māori Potential), 74
Te Puu Ao, 73
Teves, Stephanie Noelani, 27, 36
Te Waka Huia, 76
Thank-You Bar, The, 228–29, 242, 257
Therapeutic Nations, 262
Thousand Islands National Park, 287–88, 290
Thunderstomp, 264
Toronto, Vancouver, 135, 137, 276, 287. See also Aboriginal Choreographers Workshop
Trawlwulwuy, 2
Treaty of Waitangi, 69–70, 337n10
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt, 165, 218
Tsinhnahjinnie, Hulleah J., 14
Tsosie, Michael, 145–46, 154, 165, 302, 306; and dance funding, 167; and Native dance, 147, 173, 176, 233; and Santo Domingo, 93, 146
Tuck, Eve, 10, 15, 31, 266, 268–69
Turtle Island/Abya Yala, 210, 278, 289, 299
Tu te Manawa Maurea, 73
Tynan, Lauren, 2
United States, 8, 66, 159–60, 170, 219, 255–56, 277, 281; and boarding schools, 212; and Jordan Cocker, 113, 115; and colonialism, 33, 156; and dancers, 53, 107; and funding of dance, 167; and Jack Gray, 113, 117; and Indian Health Service, 211; and legal discourses, 87; and Native nations in, 36, 57, 69; and structural violence, 211; and Termination and Relocation Acts, 212; and Wolf: A Transformation, 291
University of California, Berkeley (UCB), 11–12, 103, 241, 270
University of California, Riverside (UCR), 103, 302; and Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (DE), 158, 160; faculty, 127, 146; students, 119, 133–34, 160, 191; and Rulan Tangen, 152
Urban Bush Women, 20
Vásquez, Henry James, 144–45
Verger, Natasha, 195
Victor, Thomas, 171
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 5, 180
Vizenor, Gerald, 25, 33, 35, 160, 185–87
V’ni Dansi i, 275
Waihirere Māori Club, 73
Waitangi Day, 70
Waitangi Treaty Grounds, 69–70
Waitangi Tribunal, 69. See also Treaty of Waitangi
Wakpa, Tria Blu, 61, 148, 241, 302
Walking the Edge of Water, 153, 171–72
Waterman, Clarinda Jackson, 285
Webworks: Voices of the Native Nation, 241
Wehi, Ngapo, 76
Weighill, Tharon (Howasste Wakiya), 32, 302
Weiner, Annette, 105–6
Well for Culture, 159
Wellington, 75
Werry, Margaret, 220
We Wait in the Darkness, 274, 282–85, 287
whakapapa, 78, 80–81, 85–86, 89–91
Whitehouse, Mary Starks, 47
whiteness, 65, 170, 201, 209, 212–13, 268, 270; and colonialism, 21; and dance studies, 39, 54; and somatics, 47
white supremacy, 10, 18, 23, 39, 207, 263, 271
Wijohn, Nancy, 82, 84, 97, 115
Wilderson, Frank, 21
Williams, Joe, 262
Winnemem Wintu, 11
Wittstock, Laura Waterman, 286
Wolf: A Transformation, 284, 291–93
Wong, Yutian, 20
Woodbury, Ruth, 111–12
Yakama, 30
Yang, K. Wayne, 10, 15, 31, 266, 268–69
Yaqui, 128
Yawuru, 60–61
Yelamu, 66, 241–44, 246–47, 249–51, 255
Yirramboi, 67, 255, 259, 264, 270
Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival, 66, 251–52, 254, 256, 265
Yoeme, 196
Younging, Gregory, 14
Ziegler, Geraldine, 183–84
Ziegler, Hollie Dee, 183–84
Ziegler, Thomasina Tynielle, 184
Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo, 20