Indigenous futurism

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Names

  • Indigenous Futurism
  • Indigenous Futurisms
  • Can overlap with many subgenres of Indigenous, Cultural and Ethno Futurisms such as Adivasi Futurism, Tropical Futurism, First Nations Futurism, Inuit Futurism, Pasifikafuturism, Latinxfuturism, Amazofuturism, Amazigh Futurism and more
  • Can overlap with Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism
  • Can overlap with movements like Solarpunk, Magical Realism, Worlding, Futurisms, Sci-Fi and more

Origin

  • Named in 2012 by Grace L. Dillon, PhD and Anishinaabe scholar, with the release of Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction.
  • Grace has stated that the works and genre existed before, just without a unifying name.
  • Grace prefers to call it Indigenous Futurisms in plural.
  • As a broad name and genre, it can overlap with many types of Indigenous Futurism around the world, though it initially began in North America and for some it has a North American Indigenous connotation. Since its emergence there have been many types of Indigenous Futurisms created and named, including anti-Futurisms.
  • Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurism are regularly cited as primary inspirations for the rapidly expanding realm of Futurisms, especially Alternative Futurisms, or Futurisms which are not White and Western, non-techno-Utopian, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial.
  • Grace was also co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, released in 2023.

Artists and Creators


Curators and Theorists

  • Greg Cajete
  • Grace L. Dillon (US)
  • Priteegandha Naik
  • Sadaf Padder
  • Carlos Quijon, Jr.

Events

Discussions and Panels

Conferences and Symposiums

Exhibitions and Catalogues

  • Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future, 2021

2024

  • Hawaiian Futurisms, Exhibition and Symposium, Ho‘oulu Lāhui: 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture, Honolulu, June 3-28 2024.

2023

  • And Land Erodes Into, part of Archipelagic Futurisms, Calle Wright, Manila. Curated by Carlos Quijon, Jr. Works by Nice Buenaventura and Fyerool Darma.

2021

  • Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, February 13 2020–January 3, 2021. Works by Marcus Amerman, Bryon Archuleta, Sonny Assu, Nicholas Galanin, Teri Greeves, Luzene Hill, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Steven Paul Judd, Kite, Elizabeth LaPensée, Daniel McCoy Jr., James McCloud, Ehren Kee Natay, Shelley Niro, Virgil Ortiz, Devin Ronneberg, Sarah Sense, Ryan Singer, Skawennati, Hoka Skenandore, Neal Ambrose Smith, Robert Dale Tsosie, Jeffrey Veregge, Rory Wakemup, Will Wilson, Santiago X, Debra Yepa-Pappan.

2019

  • XicanX Futurity, The Manetti Shrum Museum, UC Davis, California, January 29-May 5, 2019. Works by Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Felicia “Fe” Montes, Gina Aparicio, Gilda Posada, Melanie Cervantes, Margaret “Quica” Alarcon. Curated by Carlos Jackson, Maria Esther Fernandez, Susy Zepeda.

Publications

Books

Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, Edited by Grace L. Dillon, 2012
The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, Edited by Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, 2023
  • Grace L. Dillon (Ed.), Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, University of Arizona Press, 2012. Works by Gerald Vizenor, Diane Glancy, Stephen Graham Jones, Sherman Alexie, Celu Amberstone, Gerry William, Simon Ortiz, Nalo Hopkinson, Andrea Hairston, Archie Weller, William Sanders, Zainab Amadahy, Misha, Eden Robinson, Leslie Marmon Silko, Robert Sullivan.
  • Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, Routledge, Oct 2023, 716 pp. Publisher.

Magazines, Journals, Blogs

Videos, Podcasts, Radio

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters

  • Grace L. Dillon, “Imagining Indigenous Futurisms”, Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, University of Arizona Press, 2012, pp 1-12.
  • Alicia Inez Guzmán, "Indigenous Futurisms", InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, March 15 2015.
  • Lindsay Nixon, "Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism", Otherwise Worlds, Duke University Press, January 2020.
  • Gina Cole, "Wayfinding Pasifikafuturism: An Indigenous Science Fiction Vision of the Ocean in Space", The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, 2023.


Theses

See Also

Futurisms, Afrofuturism, Global South Futurisms, South Asian Futurisms, Dalit Futurism, Dalit Feminism, Adivasi Futurism, Chicanafuturism, Aboriginal Futurism, Subaltern Futurism, Amazofuturism, Post Western, Tropical Futurism, Decolonization, Queer Studies, Queer Futurism, Ethno Futurism

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