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Resurgent Futures: Indigenous Arts, Theory & Practice

at Tufts University
Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room 
15 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA 02155

FRIDAY, MARCH 27 // 6:45 PM – 8:00 PM
Emily Johnson (Yup’ik) and Karyn Recollet (Cree) offer a performance that extends from their ongoing Kinstillatory Mapping collaboration.

Presented as part of Resurgent Futures: Indigenous Arts, Theory & Practice, a two-day interdisciplinary symposium that brings together a diverse group of artists and scholars working within critical Indigenous studies and the visual and performing arts.

“It is not happenstance or luck that Indigenous peoples and our lands still exist after centuries of attack. This is our strategic brilliance. Our presence is our weapon, and this is visible to me at every protest, every mobilization, every time a Two Spirit person gifts us with a dance at our powwows, every time we speak our truths, every time we embody Indigenous life” (As We Have Always Done)

—Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Earlier Event: January 11
Kinstillatory Action with Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet
Later Event: February 17
Emily Johnson Performance Documentary Premiere
Office, Minneapolis, MN, US612.597.7400emily@catalystdance.com

Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. 

We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back. 

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.

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