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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction: Choreographing Relationality
    1. Choreographing Relationality
    2. Modern Dance and Modernity/Coloniality
    3. Recalibrations of Relational Exchange
    4. Intersections of Dance and Indigenous Studies
  8. 1. Choreographies of Relational Reciprocity
    1. Hosts and Visitors, Aotearoa, 2009
    2. Manaakitanga in Motion: Choreographies of Possibility
    3. Hashtag Mitimiti: Where You At?
  9. 2. Choreographies of Perspectival Relationality
    1. Dance Workshop, Riverside, California, 2006
    2. Expansive Relationality/Of Bodies of Elements
    3. Identities and Accountabilities, 2019
  10. Interlude/Pause/Provocation
    1. Refuge Rock: Otonabee River, Ontario, 2010
  11. 3. Choreographies of Relational Abun-dance
    1. Precarity
    2. Abundance and Abun-dance
    3. Emily Johnson/Catalyst
  12. 4. Choreographies of Relational Refusings
    1. Yirramboi, Melbourne, Australia, 2017
    2. Facing Refusal
    3. Teachings in Listening
    4. Indigenous Dance Works/Indigenous Dance Making/Indigenous Writing
  13. Conclusion: Closing and Opening
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Author

Index

Abaachi, Jicarilla, 148, 159

Abenaki, 35, 162, 298, 305

Aboriginal Choreographers Workshop, 135

Absolon, Kathleen E., 147

academia, 2, 67, 214, 272, 298

African American dance, 20, 55, 57

African dance, 20, 129

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

Algonquian, 41, 104, 362n5

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

Anishinaabekwe, 147, 195

Anthropocene, 3, 165, 218–19

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

Apache, 61, 142, 287

appropriation, 34, 47, 106, 181, 189, 298; and contemporary dance, 266; and race and power, 28; and reciprocity, 124; and violence, 188

Archer, Ericka, 128, 133, 158

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

Audiopharmacy, 44, 250

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

Baldy, Cutcha Risling, 11, 30

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

Berlin, 4, 192, 302

Bernal, Tohil Fidel Brito, 192

Beyond Settler Time, 282

Bharata Natyam, 46

Biography, 77, 302

Black Choreographers Moving toward the 21st Century, 19

Black dance, 19–20

Blackfoot, 129

Black social dance, 40, 53

Black studies, 3, 223

BlakDance, 254, 262

Blaser, Mario, 22, 61–62

“blood quantum,” 7, 33, 36–37

Bobb, Sid, 136

Bobkoff, Ned, 195

Body-Mind Centering, 48, 50, 272

Bonnington, Mark, 85

Boon Wurrung, 256, 260

Borelli, Melissa Blanco, 51

Bragin, Naomi, 13

Brazil, 5, 128, 137, 180

Brooks, Lisa, 35–36, 51

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

Canuel, Jasmin, 97, 115

capitalism, 9, 21–22, 165, 218, 222, 224–25, 227

capoeira, 128–29, 143

Castro, Eduardo Viveiros de, 5, 180

Catalyst Dance, 66, 227

Cayuga, 158, 227

Cerda, Tony, 241

Chamorro, 103

Chartrand, Yvonne, 195, 275, 301

Chatterjea, Ananya, 3, 13–14, 20, 59, 148–50, 304

Chazan, May, 269

Cherokee, 129, 287, 324n151

Cheyenne, 104

Chicago, 100, 232–33, 239

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

climate change, 153, 165

Closed Cultural Protocol Ceremony, 67, 259–61

Club O’Noodles, 51

Cocker, Deborah, 95, 301

Cocker, Jordan, 113, 115

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

Costanoa, 44, 217, 278

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

Dakota, 2, 31, 33, 103

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

decoloniality, 5, 98, 123

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

Dene, 2, 104

Diaz, Junot, 4

Dick, Beau, 174–75

Diné, 14, 158–59

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

Electric Fields, 261, 264

Elswit, Kate, 40

embodiment, 29, 31, 40, 48, 55, 62

Enlightenment, 5, 55

ethnography, 51

Evening of Earth and Sky, 178, 180

Feliciano, Rita, 171

feminism, 50, 65, 170, 213

feminist studies, 3, 50, 65, 186

Fensham, Rachel, 260, 304

Feuillet notation, 41–42

Fiji, 160, 220

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

France, 107, 130

Franko, Mark, 41, 54

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, Cindy, 45, 51

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

gender studies, 3, 50

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, Doran, 46–47, 49

George-Graves, Nadine, 20

Germany, 4, 192, 302

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

Guatemala, 61, 160

Guerrero, Quetzal, 128, 133, 137, 177

Haakanson Jr., Sven, 208

haka, 71–73, 75–76, 83–86, 88, 114, 116

Halprin, Anna, 47, 49

Hamuera, Matiu, 96–97, 115–16

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

heteropatriarchy, 7, 17

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

hula, 2, 31

humanism, 21–22, 27

Hunka, 184

Hunt, Sarah, 270

Hupa, 11, 30

Hwëch’, Tr’ondëk, 68, 272, 284

Hyslop, Bianca, 84, 97, 115

Idle No More, 30

Imada, Adria, 104, 121

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

Ixil Maya, 22, 44, 61, 192

Jackson, Moana, 70

Jacob, Michelle M., 30

Jannok, Sofia, 192

Johnson, Deollo, 129, 143

Johnson, Emily, 61, 66, 227–29, 230–38, 241–242, 244–46, 248–57, 277, 301

Johnson, Imani Kai, 40, 303

Johnson, Jay T., 15, 70

Jones, Daystar/Rosalie, 148, 178, 195, 283–84, 291, 293, 301

Joseph, Jillene, 190

Justice, Daniel Heath, 42

Kaha:wi, 66, 226

Kaha:wi Dance Theater, 276

Kahnawà:ke, 8, 36, 166, 267

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

kapa haka, 72, 74–76, 83, 94

Kapampangan, 182

Karrabing Collective, 43, 219

kāwanatanga, 69

K’dee, Ras, 44

Kedhar, Anusha, 14, 57, 176, 179, 303

Kelly, Thomas, 262, 270

Kendall, Andrew, 95, 102, 114, 123, 301

Kendall, Diane, 95, 102, 114, 123, 301

Khalil, Anthony, 242, 250

Kiowa, 107, 113, 115, 117

Kirkland, Gelsey, 141

Klee, Paul, 175

Kokiri Whakamua, 74

Koroneho, Charles, 4, 26, 90–91, 301

Kotowich, Jeanette, 264–65, 301

Kramer, Lara, 275

Kraut, Anthea, 13, 21–22, 303

Kroeber, Alfred, 11

Kulin, 256, 259–60

Kwakwaka’wakw, 174, 270

Kwan, SanSan, 14

Laban Movement Analysis, 272

Laguna, 128, 158, 173

Laiti, Jenni, 192

Lakota, 2, 138, 182, 184

Langberg, Krista, 232–34, 248–49, 254

Larsen, Soren C., 15, 70

Latour, Bruno, 165

Lenape, 103, 236–37, 277, 298

Lenapehoking (New York City), 9, 66, 104, 236–37, 240–41, 254

Lepecki, Andre, 40, 55

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

Los Angeles, 45, 51, 128, 225

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

Luna, James, 196, 203

Lyons, Richard Scott, 33–36, 185–86

maanakitanga, 64

Máara’yam (Serrano), 298

Macias, Evangelina, 61, 304

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

Manitowabi, Edna, 190, 302

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

Mete, Taane, 82, 85

Métis, 184, 195, 264, 273–75

Mexico, 20, 128–29, 157, 159

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

Million, Dian, 51, 262

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

Natay, Ehren, 128, 134, 143

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 parks, 283, 290

National Performance Network, 138

Native Wellness Institute, 161, 190

Native Youth, 159

Navajo, 128, 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

Niicugni, 228, 257

No Dakota Access Pipeline (No DAPL), 31

non-human, 44, 60. See also more-than-human/other-than-human

Norway, 130, 192

O’Brien, Jean, 33, 55

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

Oka, 195, 212

Olson, Michelle, 68, 272–73, 284, 301, 304

Opotiki-Mai-Tawhiti, 73

Ortman, Laura, 287–88

Osage, 158, 277–78

Oyate Okadakiciyapi Festival, 184, 277, 282

Pākehā, 69, 73, 118

Pamintuan, Tina, 204, 208–9, 214

Pasion, Toni Temehana, 95, 119, 301

Payómkawichum (Luiseño), 298

Pembina Chippewa, 148, 284

People Have Never Stopped Dancing, The, 3, 63

Pepeha, 82, 89–91, 93

performance studies, 3–4, 54, 58, 61, 103

Peridance Dance Company, 142

Pesata Anne, 61, 148, 159

Pether, Joshua, 264

Philippines, 156, 182, 242

Piatote, Beth, 51

Pigram, Dalisa, 60

Piscataway, 163

Plant, Pennie Opal, 192

Polynesia, 88, 91, 141, 267

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

Pratt, Mary Louise, 32, 236

precarity, 66–67, 217–21, 223–24, 227, 256–58

Profeta, Katherine, 40–41

Purepecha, 128, 158

Purkayastha, Prarthana, 40

Qingming Festival, 81

queerness, 7, 52–54, 56, 261, 264; and Māori, 75

Queypo, Kalani, 136–37, 174

Raheja, Michelle, 35, 145, 304

Ramirez, Rayna, 37

Rancon, Serena, 128

Randall, Mariaa, 263

Ravensbergen, Lisa Cooke, 17

Raven Spirit Dance, 272, 284

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

resurgent, 7, 16, 186

Reynoso, José, 20, 303

Richomme, François, 107, 111

Riddu Riddu Indigenous Festival, 192

Rifkin, Mark, 30, 33, 37, 45, 52, 55–56, 226, 282

Rings, Frances, 97, 115, 117

Rivera, Carlos, 275

Robinson, Dylan, 1, 154, 266–69, 272

Robinson, Mary Jean, 241, 250

Rodriques, Lis, 5

Ronceria, Alejandro, 135, 140

Rose, Deborah Bird, 6

Rossen, Rebecca, 20, 46

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

salsa, 45, 51

Sami, 192

Samoa, 91, 105, 220

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

Savigliano, Marta, 16, 51, 59

Sayers, Anne Marie, 217

Sayers-Roods, Kanyon, 278, 280, 304

Seattle, 251, 255

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

Sisk, Caleen, 11, 103

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

Soboba Reservation, 161, 276

social media, 77, 79, 98, 102, 114–15, 119, 158, 192; and #mitimiti campaign, 100, 112, 122

Solomon, Brian, 135, 173

Somatics, 46–50, 175

Soto, Carla, 135

South Asian dance, 57, 176

South Dakota, 31, 182

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

Squamish, 61, 275

Srinivasan, Priya, 20, 22, 40, 46, 59

Stanger, Arabella, 23, 302

St. Denis, Ruth, 20

Stó:lö, 1, 154, 266

Stuckey, Sterling, 40

surfing, 9, 45, 221

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

tango, 16, 51, 130

Taunton, Carla, 42

Tauranga, 72

Taylor, Diana, 61–62

Teaiwa, Teresia, 36

television, 100

Te Matatini, 71–72, 76

Tempo Dance Festival NZ, 110–11

Te Puni Kokiri (Realizing Māori Potential), 74

Te Puu Ao, 73

Te Rarawa, 4, 81, 89, 124–25

te reo Māori, 72, 75, 83, 93

Tesuque, 128, 158

Teves, Stephanie Noelani, 27, 36

Te Waka Huia, 76

Thank-You Bar, The, 228–29, 242, 257

Therapeutic Nations, 262

Thomas, Gabrielle, 97, 115

Thousand Islands National Park, 287–88, 290

Thunderstomp, 264

Tinker, George “Tink,” 43, 45

Tóngva, 298, 305

Toronto, Vancouver, 135, 137, 276, 287. See also Aboriginal Choreographers Workshop

tourism, 71, 104, 111, 124

Trafzer, Cliff, 146, 304

Trawlwulwuy, 2

Treaty of Waitangi, 69–70, 337n10

Trujillo, Raoul, 137, 140

Tsimshian, 13, 43, 274

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

Tuhiwai Smith, Linda, 14, 51

Tūmoana, 100–102, 111

Turtle Island/Abya Yala, 210, 278, 289, 299

Tu te Manawa Maurea, 73

Two-Row Wampum, 283, 289–90

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

Wampanoag, 41, 182

Washington, D.C., 128, 217

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

Wolfe, Patrick, 21, 160, 219

Women and Water, 66, 225–26

Wong, Deborah, 16, 51

Wong, Yutian, 20

Woodbury, Ruth, 111–12

Wurundjeri, 251, 256, 260

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

Young, Eagle, 128, 133, 143

Younging, Gregory, 14

Yu’pik, 66, 227, 244, 255

Ziegler, Geraldine, 183–84

Ziegler, Hollie Dee, 183–84

Ziegler, Thomasina Tynielle, 184

Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo, 20

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