Please join us for this talk by Brittani Orona, the very first Incomindios Lippuner scholar - a collaboration between the University of Kent and the Indigenous Rights NGO, Incomindios UK.

Zoom details will be sent out nearer the event.

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'This is our home, this is our land: Visualizing Decolonization on the Klamath River Basin' details ongoing environmental justice and decolonial advocacy led by the Yurok, Karuk, and Hupa people of Northwestern California surrounding dam removal on the Klamath River. In 2002, a massive fish kill resulted in the deaths of upwards of 80,000 mature Chinook and Coho salmon on the Klamath River and its tributaries resulting in advocacy to remove four dams on the Klamath. Native people of the Basin use visual sovereignty, direct action, and performance to detail the importance of the Basin towards continued cultural and physical sustenance.

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Brittani Orona is an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at UC Davis in Native American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Human Rights. Brittani completed her Master of Arts in Native American Studies at UC Davis in 2018 and her Master of Arts in Public History at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) in 2014. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from Humboldt State University in 2010.

Brittani is interested in repatriation, federal Indian law, cultural resources management, indigenous environmental justice, and environmental history as they relate to California Indian tribes. Her dissertation research focuses on Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk perspectives of visual sovereignty, memory, human and water rights on the Klamath River Basin.