2022.01: The Ongoing Effects of Settler Colonialism in the US

Dr. Jacki Thompson Rand, Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Native Affairs, UIUC

Writings by Dr. Jacki Thompson Rand

• Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State. University of Nebraska Press.

• "Red, White, and Black: A Personal Essay on Interracial Marriage," in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Volume 29, Numbers 2 & 3, 2008, p. 51-58.

• Indigenous Midwest, Digital Humanities Project

Readings on Settler Colonialism

• "Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native," by Patrick Wolfe in Journal of Genocide Research, 8:4 (2006), 387-409.

• "Entangled Pasts: Land-Grant Colleges and American Indian Dispossession" by Margaret A. Nash in History of Education Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, November 2019, pp. 437 - 467.

Other links

• July 30, 2020 article from the Smile Politely editorial board with links to stories about UIUC's previous mascot, Chief Illiniwek

• Illinois does NOT require the specific teaching of Native American history in K-12 schools.

• UIUC Chancellor's website with the official and optional land acknowledgement statements