It uses archival research, oral history interviews, and literary analysis, and engages the boundaries between academic research and political activism as it strives to contribute to today’s struggles for a decolonial present.

The project focuses on white-led organizations for the rights of Native North Americans across the US, Canada and Western Europe between the 1960s and the 1990s.

Bringing together the frameworks of critical whiteness studies, settler colonial studies, and indigenous studies, the project investigates the role that structures of colonialism and whiteness have played in shaping solidarity efforts and the assumptions underlying them.

Titled “White Solidarity and Native North American Rights in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, 1960s-1990s”, the project interrogates the challenges of building solidarity across racialized and colonial power relations.