Rattlesnake Kinship:  Indigeneity, Disability, Animality

Vivian Delchamps

doi:10.18061/dsq.v41i4.8451

Rattlesnake Kinship: Indigeneity, Disability, Animality

Vivian Delchamps

Department of Literature, Language and Humanities

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Abstract

This essay attends to diverse meanings of rattlesnakes by first examining historical Western practices of exclusion and extermination and then (a few of many) Indigenous perspectives with an emphasis on Hopi communities' interrelationships with disabled, animalized beings. Such perspectives may invite (especially non-Native) disability scholars to embrace kinships with beings that Western culture has deemed pestilent, pitiful, and dangerous to human life but that many Indigenous cultures have understood to be empowering.

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Original language	American English
Journal	Disabilities Studies Quarterly
Volume	41
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v41i4.8451
State	Published - 2021

Keywords

Indigeneity
Animal Studies
Kinship
Hopi Nation
Rattlesnakes
American History

Disciplines

Cultural History
Other American Studies
Social and Cultural Anthropology

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