Joanne Barker

Lenni-Lenape

(Delaware Tribe of Indians)

 

Associate Professor

American Indian Studies

 

 

 

Contact Information

 

American Indian Studies

San Francisco State University

1600 Holloway Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94132

 

Office: Ethnic Studies & Psychology Building #106

Office: (415) 338-7062

FAX: (415) 405-0496

Email: jmbarker@sfsu.edu

 

Links

 

Blog: Tequila Sovereign

Professional: NativeWiki

Faculty page: Here

 

 

Stuff

 

Read the Memorandum of Solidarity With Indigenous Peoples, passed at the “Occupy Oakland” General Assembly on Friday, October 28, 2011.

 

Hear my radio interview – with Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Cheyenne River Lakota) and Steven Newcomb (Lenape and Shawnee) – on J. Kēhaulani Kauanui’s (Kanaka Maoli) show, Indigenous Politics, about the politics of the “occupy” movements.

 

See my op-ed in the New York Times: Room For Debate – with others by Kevin Mallard (Seminole), Cara Cowan-Watts (Cherokee), Matthew L.M. Fletcher (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians), Rose Cuison Villazor, Heather Williams (Cherokee), Carla D. Pratt, and Tiya Miles – on the political issues surrounding the Cherokee Freedmen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule

 

Fall 2011

 

AIS 205: American Indians and U.S. Laws: On-line

AIS 330: American Indian Law (TTh 12:30-1:50): New Course!

AIS 535: American Indian Film (T 4:10-6:55): New Course!

 

Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-4:00

and by appointment (August 23-December 16, 2011)

 

 

 

Spring 2012

 

AIS 205: American Indians and U.S. Laws: On-line

AIS 460: Power and Politics in American Indian History (TTh 12:30-1:50)

AIS 535: American Indian Film (T 4:10-6:55)

 

Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-4:00

and by appointment (January 24-May 11, 2012)

 

 

 

 

Presentations/Meetings

 

Indigenous Solidarity Teach-In, “Occupy Oakland,” November 13, 2011.

 

“Occupy Oakland,” General Assembly, Proposal, October 28, 2011.

 

With Vince Diaz (University of Michigan). The Politics of Indigeneity, Authenticity, and Gender. University of Washington, Seattle. May 26, 2011.

 

Attending the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. May 12-21, 2011. Sacramento, California.

 

Plenary IV: The Politics of Recognition (April 2). Symposium on Race and Sovereignty. UCLA Law School. March 31 to April 2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publications & Works in Progress Include….

 

Books

 

The Science of Rights: Native/Indigenous Historical Experiences and the Politics of U.S. Modernity. Manuscript in progress.

 

Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011.

Editor, Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. Contemporary Indigenous Issues Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

 

Articles & Essays

 

“The Politics of Native Historical Knowledge in Imperial Times: The Wallam Olum in Delaware Tribe Recognition Struggles.” Work in progress.

 

“Gender.” 2012. The Indigenous World of North America. Robert Warrior, ed. New York: Routledge Press.

 

“The Recognition of NAGPRA: A Human Rights Promise Deferred.” 2012. Sovereignty Struggles and Native Rights in the United States: State and Federal Recognition. Amy E. Den Ouden and Jean M. O’Brien, editors. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

 

“Indigenous Feminisms.” 2011. Handbook on Indigenous People’s Politics. Donna Lee Van Cott, Jose Antonio Lucero, and Dale Turner, eds. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

"Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7, no. 1 (2006), 127-161.

 

"Recognition." Special joint issue of Indigenous Nations Journal and American Studies 46, nos. 3/4 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006), 117-145.

 

“For Whom Sovereignty Matters.” 2005. Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. Contemporary Indigenous Issues Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1-32.

 

"The Human Genome Diversity Project: 'Peoples', 'Populations', and the Cultural Politics of Identification." Cultural Studies 18, no. 4 (2004), 578-613.

 

"Indian™ U.S.A." Wicazō Śa Review: A Native American Studies Journal 18, no. 1 (2003), 24-79.

 

“Looking for Warrior Woman (Beyond Pocahontas)." this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation. AnaLouise Keating and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. (New York: Routledge Press, 2002, 314-325). Reprinted in, though

originally written for, Beyond the Frame. Neferti Tadiar and Angela Davis, eds. (New York: Palgrave Press, 2005, 61-76).

 

 

 

 

 

Biographical Sketch

 

Joanne Barker is an enrolled member of the Lenape nation of eastern Oklahoma [the Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, Oklahoma]. She earned her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2000. Since 2000, she has held the Ford Foundation Fellowship with an association at the Center for Race & Gender at the University of California, Berkeley (2005-2006), the SFSU Presidential Sabbatical Award (Spring 2010), and a Visiting Scholarship in the American Indian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (2010-2011). She serves on the Nomination’s Committee of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (2010-2013). She edited Sovereignty Matters (2005) and authored Native Acts (2011).

 

 

 

 

Updated: November 23, 2011