BaCE: Representation Thru Radical Resistance
About the event
Representation thru Radical Resistance: Native American Literature and Language
Join WSU Vancouver Native American Programs Director Julian Ankney as she guides you through an interactive session to inspire and empower you to use Native American literature, while also learning culturally responsive terms to respectfully engage with Indigenous concepts inside the classroom.
- Location: Zoom
- Facilitator: Julian Ankney
- Pre-requisite: IDI pre-assessment for WSU Vancouver faculty and staff
- This session recognizes National Native American Heritage Month.
- A Group 2 workshop
WSU students, faculty and staff
About the Speaker
Julian C. Ankney is Niimíipuu ‘Nez Perce’ and lives on both the Nez Perce Reservation in Lapwai, Idaho and Portland, Oregon.
Ankney is a scholar and social justice advocate. Her scholarship includes creating a space for Indigenous language reclamation as resistance and her work has significance for social justice awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP), gender equality, decolonization, sovereignty, and human rights for Indigenous people. Ankney is the Director for Native American Programs, co-director of the Visiting Writers Series, and co-fiction editor for Blood Orange Review at Washington State University Vancouver/Pullman. Ankney teaches Native American and multicultural literature, creative writing, and has co-taught a language revitalization class that focuses on reclamation, revitalization, and the importance of Nez Perce language and culture. Ankney has received the WSU AFW Founders Award (2020) and is one of the recipients of the 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Service: Inclusive & Equitable Practices Award. She is a voice on The Old Mole at Portland’s KBOO radio and was featured in the Hearst Museum’s online exhibit, Cloth that Stretches: Weaving Community Across Time and Space, exploring textiles as cultural sites of identity formation and cultural resilience (2020) and is a 2023 Arts and Research Center, University of California Berkeley, Poetry & the Senses Fall Fellow. Her work is published in Talking River,Yellow Medicine Review, and EcoArts on the Palouse. Lastly, Ankney is a member of luk’upsíimey, The North Star Collective (an Indigenous Plateau literary advocacy group).