Christopher Pexa

American Indian Studies
College of Liberal Arts
Twin Cities

Award Year
2020
University Award
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship

Sovereign Flows: Indigenous Future-Making Beyond Borders

Christopher Pexa draws on Native American and Indigenous studies approaches to examine how a diverse range of archival, legal, and literary texts by Indigenous authors challenge and reimagine liberal citizenship, property, and sovereignty, as well as the ongoing colonialisms of settler states. His current book project examines works from Indigenous authors across the world that assert movement—considered in linguistic and aesthetic terms, but also as physical border-crossings—as a key future-oriented means of performing tribal peoplehood and tribal sovereignty in our present moment.