Beyond Land Acknowledgment in Settler Institutions

Abstract What does land acknowledgment do? Where does it come from? Where is it pointing? Existing literature, especially critiques by Indigenous scholars, unequivocally assert that settler land acknowledgments are problematic in their favoring of rhetoric over action. However, formal written statements may challenge institutions to recognize their complicity in settler colonialism and their institutional responsibilities to tribal sovereignty. Building on these critiques, particularly the writings of Métis cultural producer Chelsea Vowel, this article offers beyond as a framework for how institutional land acknowledgments can or cannot support Indigenous relationality, land pedagogy, and accountability to place and peoples. The authors describe the critical differences between Indigenous protocols of mutual recognition and settler practices of land acknowledgment. These Indigenous/settler differences illuminate an Indigenous perspective on what acknowledgments ought to accomplish. For example, Acjachemen/Tongva scholar Charles Sepulveda forwards the Tongva concept of Kuuyam, or guest, as “a reimagining of human relationships to place outside of the structures of settler colonialism.” What would it mean for a settler speaker of a land acknowledgment to say, “I am a visitor, and I hope to become a proper guest”? Two empirical examples are presented: the University of California, Los Angeles, where an acknowledgment was crafted in 2018; and the University of California, San Diego, where an acknowledgment is under way in 2020. The article concludes with beyond as a potential decolonial framework for land acknowledgment that recognizes Indigenous futures.

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Allergies and Asthma

10.1542/9781581105810 ◽

2005 ◽

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

American Academy ◽

San Diego ◽

Internship And Residency ◽

University Of California ◽

Food Allergies ◽

American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽

The University ◽

Allergies And Asthma ◽

Allergy And Asthma

Allergies and Asthma: What Every Parent Needs to Know is an invaluable resource for parents and caregivers trying to cope with the challenges of childhood asthma and allergies. First published 10 years ago, this well-organized guide covers such topics as: Identifying allergies and asthma, Preventing attacks, Minimizing triggers and avoiding allergens, Choosing medications wisely, Explaining allergies to young children, Helping children of all ages manage symptoms, What to do if a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction or asthma attack occurs. Allergies and Asthma now provides updated information on allergies--including the latest findings on food allergies and treatments--along with new approaches for monitoring asthma control, with expanded recommendations for children. The second edition provides new guidance on medications, new recommendations on patient education in settings beyond the physician's office, and new advice for controlling environmental factors that can cause asthma symptoms. Table of Contents includes: Allergies and Asthma Explained, Establishing the Diagnosis, Skin Allergies, Hay Fever (Allergic Rhinitis), Food Allergies, Killer Allergies: Anaphalaxis, Approaches to Allergy Treatments, An Overview of Asthma, Common Asthma Triggers and How to Identify Them, Asthma in Infants and Toddlers, Approaches to Asthma Treatments, How Environmental and Lifestyle Factors Affect Asthma Teaching Your Child the Basics of Self Care, Appendices, Hidden Sources of Food Allergens, Sources for Information About Allergies and Asthma, Sources of Allergy and Asthma Products, Practical Publications on Allergies and Asthma, Resources from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Glossary, and Index. About the Editor: Michael J. Welch, MD, FAAAAI, FAAP, CPI, is codirector of the Allergy and Asthma Medical Group and Research Center in San Diego, CA, and clinical professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Dr Welch earned his medical degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he later completed an internship and residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in allergy/immunology. Dr Welch is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. He is past president of the San Diego Allergy Society and the California Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. He lives in San Diego.

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Dee(a)r Spine: Dance, Dramaturgy, and the Repatriation of Indigenous Memory

Dance Research Journal ◽

10.1017/s0149767715000546 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 41-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sam Mitchell ◽

Julie Burelle

Keyword(s):

San Diego ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

University Of California ◽

The Creation ◽

Indigenous Memory ◽

The University

This dialogue between artist and dramaturg documents the creation of Dee(a)r Spine, Sam Mitchell's adaptation of the Yaqui Deer Dance, performed on Kumeyaay territory at the University of California, San Diego. Weaving reflections on dance, dramaturgy, and methodology, this article posits that dancing offers a pathway to the repatriation of Indigenous memory and kinship, a way to honor the trajectories of those whose connections with their communities have been interrupted by settler-colonialism. Dancing as a repatriation methodology, we argue, carves a healing space of sensate self-representation that centers on Indigenous forms of knowing and leaves no one behind.

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Coccidian parasites of the California Banded King Snake, Lampropeltis getulus californiae

Parasitology ◽

10.1017/s0031182000069377 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 58 (2) ◽

pp. 349-354 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

P. F. D. Van Peenen ◽

T. L. Birdwell

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

San Diego ◽

University Of California ◽

Zoological Society ◽

Coccidian Parasites ◽

The University ◽

King Snakes

Three coccidian parasites were found in California Banded King Snakes, Lampropeltis getulus californiae: Isospora crotali, an intestinal Eimeria, and a haemogregarine. Schizogonous stages of the latter occurred predominantly in liver, and were remarkably similar to those described for other blood Coccidia.Dr Charles E. Shaw of the San Diego Zoological Society identified the snakes, and Dr Gordon Ball, Professor of Zoology at the University of California, Los Angeles, kindly reviewed the manuscript.

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Dialogues

Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture ◽

10.1525/lavc.2020.2.3.53 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 53-59

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

New Spain ◽

American Art ◽

Historical Trauma ◽

State Building ◽

University Of California ◽

Religious Experiences ◽

Political Space ◽

California Missions ◽

The University

The California missions, whose original church spaces and visual programs were produced by Iberian, Mexican, and Native artisans between 1769 and 1823, occupy an ambiguous chronological, geographical, and political space. They occupy lands that have pertained to conflicting territorialities: from Native nations, to New Spain, to Mexico, to the modern multicultural California. The physical and visual landscapes of the missions have been sites of complex and often incongruous religious experiences; historical trauma and romantic vision; Indigenous genocide, exploitation, resistance, and survivance; state building and global enterprise. This Dialogues section brings together critical voices, including especially the voices of California Indian scholars, to interrogate received models for thinking about the art historical legacies of the California missions. Together, the contributing authors move beyond and across borders and promote new decolonial strategies that strive to be responsive to the experience of California Indian communities and nations. This conversation emerges from cross-disciplinary relationships established at a two-day conference, “‘American’ Art and the Legacy of Conquest: Art at California’s Missions in the Global 18th–20th Centuries,” sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art and held at the University of California, Los Angeles, in November 2019.

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Appraising Newness: Whiteness, Neoliberalism & the Building of the Archive for New Poetry

Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies ◽

10.24242/jclis.v1i2.38 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Eunsong Kim

Keyword(s):

San Diego ◽

University Of California ◽

Collection Development ◽

Literary Scholarship ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Archival Practice ◽

Small Press ◽

The University

The Archive for New Poetry (ANP) at the University of California San Diego was founded with the specific intention of collecting alternative, small press publications and acquiring the manuscripts of contemporary new poets. The ANP’s stated collection development priority was to acquire alternative, non-mainstream, emerging, “experimental” poets as they were writing and alive, and to provide a space in which their papers could live, along with recordings of their poetry readings. In this article, I argue that through racialized understandings of innovation and new, whiteness positions the ANP’s collection development priority. I interrogate two main points in this article: 1) How does whiteness—though visible and open—remain unquestioned as an archival practice? and 2) How are white archives financed and managed? Utilizing the ANP’s financial proposals, internal administrative correspondences, and its manuscript appraisals and collections, I argue that the ANP’s collection development priority is racialized, and this prioritization is institutionally processed by literary scholarship that linked innovation to whiteness. Until very recently, US Experimental and “avant-garde” poetry has been indexed to whiteness. The indexing of whiteness to experimentation, or the “new” can be witnessed in the ANP’s collection development priorities, appraisals, and acquisitions. I argue that the structure of the manuscripts acquired by the ANP reflect literary scholarship that theorized new poetry as being written solely by white poets and conclude by examining the absences in the Archive for New Poetry.

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