Kara Roanhorse
Kara Roanhorse (Diné) is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies. Her research centers Indigenous youth as critical theorists of decolonial futures, tracing histories of resistance, kinship, and care across geographies marked by settler colonial violence. Grounded in Diné/Indigenous knowledge and feminist praxis, her work engages oral histories, archival analysis, and political movements to examine how youth reclaim sovereignty towards the ends of decolonization. Kara draws on the metaphor of stars and sovereignty to emphasize how young people carry ancestral and inspirational knowledge forward, refusing erasure while charting new constellations of Indigenous life, everyday refusal, and liberation.
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Southwest Studies
- Indigenous Film
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