A Community Generated Practice of Indigenous Futurity




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Laura Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and an associate professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Previously, she was an associate professor at the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning, teaching Indigenous Planning and Community Development. Dr. Harjo's research and teaching centers on imbuing complexity to Indigenous space, and place, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives, and community-based knowledge production and she is the author of Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity (University of Arizona Press, 2019) and co-authored with Dr. Heather Dorries "Beyond Safety: Refusing Colonial Violence Through Indigenous Feminist Planning" (JPER, 2020) Dr. Harjo has served as Muscogee (Creek) Nation's Ambassador to the United Nations and is currently the vice-chair of the board of directors for the Indian Land Tenure Foundation.

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