Ashley serves as a co-chair of the Indigenous Peoples caucus of the National Women's Studies Association and actively participates in the Gender, Women, and Feminist PhD working group. Her most recent article, “What Makes a Feminist Interdisciplinary Scholar? Preparing for the Unknown,” is currently available in a special issue of Feminist Studies on “Doctoral Degrees in W/G/F/S Studies: taking stock” (44.2, 2018.)

Her book manuscript “Settling the Past: Epistemic Violence and the Making of Indigenous Subjectivities” draws on Miami historical narratives and contemporary political projects to explore the dynamics of race, land, and historical evidence in constituting Indigenous subjectivities. Her research appears in scholarly journals such as Biography (2016) and Settler Colonial Studies (2015). The Woodrow Wilson Foundation named her a 2017 Nancy Weiss Malkiel scholar for her dedication to working toward racial justice as junior faculty. She is a member of the Miami Nation of Indiana and serves on the language committee designing Myaamia language programing and research support for the tribe. Her language revitalization work emphasizes models for teaching Algonquian Grammar, which open up possibilities for developing multi-lingual Algonquian language programming.

Blackness as a Category of Analysis in Miami History.

Even more than most Indigenous communities, Miami Indian history has been told through an explicitly White framework. The most famous Miami historical figure, Frances Slocum, was given the nickname “the White Rose of the Miami.” The second most famous Miami, Chief Little Turtle was known for his interest in White Anglo-culture using forks, drinking coffee, and making butter in his own home in the late 18th century. My earlier research uses these historical narratives to interrogate the settler logics that work to delegitimize Miami claims to land and normalize the white possession of Indiana in the present. In this essay I trace where and how Blackness appears in Miami history from Slocum’s unnamed black translator to the Japanese Blackness of “authentic” looking Miami today. Through the workshops I want to think through the vagueness that surrounds Black figures and markers in Miami history and the epistemic work that vagueness does to reify white-supremacist narratives of Miamiexceptionalism.

Jillian Rogin, Law

Jillian Rogin is the mother of a vivacious three-year-old. She completed her undergraduate degree at Trent University with a double major in Indigenous Studies and Philosophy. It was there that she began to understand her role in settler-colonialism and her responsibilities as a settler on this land. In furtherance of this pursuit, she completed an M.E.S. graduate degree at York University where she examined gender and apartheid in Israel. After working in social services for almost a decade, she completed an LLB degree at the University of Windsor. After fulfilling her articles at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, she worked at Legal Aid Ontario as a duty counsel lawyer (criminal). Jillian then completed an LLM at Osgoode Hall Law School examining the law of bail as it applies to Indigenous accused people in Canada. After working for two years as a review counsel at Community Legal Aid (CLA) in Windsor, she accepted the appointment of Assistant (Clinic) Professor at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law. She researches and publishes in the areas of clinic scholarship and criminal law including judicial interim release, evidence in sexual assault cases, Gladue, and legal ethics and professionalism. Her work is informed by feminist legal theory, Indigenous scholarship, and post-colonial and critical race scholarship.

In a working paper tentatively titled Whiteness, Solidarity, and Activism: Reflections on Becoming an Advocate, questions about the role of white folks within spaces of anti-Black racism and anti-colonial activism and advocacy raise complicated questions about the role of the ‘ally’ and of solidarity work.

Successes and grave failures abound as we, as solidarity activists, navigate trust and mistrust arising from the complex relationships we have with anti-racist advocacy that are informed by hundreds of years of

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