[Linganth] Peltier/Readings Suggestions

[Patlan, Quichi]

Dear Linguistic Anthropologists,


I am teaching my first "applied anthropology" undergrad course and I thought I would update my syllabus in light of recent events. In particular:

Among Joe Biden’s final actions was the commutation of Leonard Peltier.
He is an 80-year-old Indigenous activist who had been federally imprisoned for almost 50 years.
Peltier was the longest imprisoned Native American political prisoner in U.S. history and one of the oldest people held in federal detention.

I would very much welcome any ethnographic readings you think might fit discussing topics such the feds/CIA, surveillance, political prisoners, and Indigenous incarceration??

I would also encourage everyone to consider adding a lecture on such an important moment in sovereignty history where it may fit.


Thank you for your time, and may all political prisoners be free.


-Quichi




"If you live through defeat, you’re not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are."

― The RZA, The Tao of Wu

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, and the Truth,"
- Gautama Buddha

Quichi Patlan, PhD (UT Austin)
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