Indigenous Healing as Paradox : Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony Courage Kent Monkman’s art has been

Kent Monkman’s art has been described as “stupendous” (New York Times)

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Loss of Indigenous Eden posits that the Indigenous world preceded that of modern civilization

the parts of his identity that are woven into the fabric of his DNA

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Indigenous Healing as Paradox : Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony Courage Kent Monkman’s art has beenKrista Maxwell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. A settler scholar, her research focuses on Indigenous social and political organizing around healing, care, and child welfare from the mid twentieth century to the present. These interests are motivated by an analysis of the biopolitics of liberal settler colonialism as both a mode of assimilative governance and social dismemberment, and affording space for tactical