Legal and Theoretical Perspectives
Chair: Jair Peltier Bear Clan, Anishinaabe, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa (University of Southern California, US, Political Science and International Relations)
- Raymond I. Orr Citizen Potawatomi (Dartmouth College, US, Native American Studies)
Comparative Perspectives on Early Violence in Settler Societies: Australia and US
- Walter Delrio (National University of Río Negro, Argentina, History) and Pilar Perez (National University of Río Negro, Argentina, History)
The Desert Within: Indigenous Genocide as a Structuring Event in Argentina
- Jeffrey Ostler (University of Oregon, US, Northwest and Pacific History)
U.S. Indian Removal: Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide?
Jair Peltier is a PhD student in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa where he is adjunct faculty at the local tribal community college, TMCC. His research focuses on Indigenous sovereignty with an emphasis on tribal constitutions in the United States. Mr. Peltier currently serves as the Graduate Cultural Ambassador for SEIP’s Native American Pasifika Student Lounge on the USC campus.
Raymond Orr (Citizen Potawatomi) is Associate Professor in the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College. Prior to joining Dartmouth, he was Chair of the Department of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma and taught politics and Indigenous studies at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Reservation Politics: Historical Trauma, Economic Development and Intratribal Politics. His work takes a comparative approach to Indigenous politics.
Walter Delrio works as Professor in History at the National University of Río Negro. He is also a Researcher for the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research. He is the author of Memorias de expropiación. Sometimiento e incorporación indígena en la Patagonia (1872-1943) (Bernal: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2005) and co-editor of En el país de nomeacuerdo. Archivos y memorias del genocidio del Estado argentino sobre los pueblos originarios, 1870-1950 (Viedma: Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. 2018). He is a member of the Red de Investigadorxs en Genocidio y Política Indígena en Argentina.
Pilar Pérez is a Professor and PhD in History, graduated at the National University of Buenos Aires. She works as Professor in History at the National University of Río Negro (Patagonia). She is also a Researcher for the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research at the IIDYPCa, Bariloche. Her main lines of work deal with the past and present of the Mapuche people; the privatization of public land; the history of armed and police forces in Patagonia; and the relation between archive, hegemonic history, and memory. She is a member of the Red de Investigadorxs en Genocidio y Política Indígena en Argentina since 2005. This network brings together research, activism and communication on the Indigenous topic in Argentina and works on the acknowledgement and reparation of the Genocide perpetrated against Indigenous peoples of the country. She has published both collective and individual books, such as Archivos del Silencio. Estado, indígenas y violencia en Patagonia central, 1878-1941 (Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros, 2016). She is also a radio host and producer, a screenwriter and actress. For more information about Professor Pérez, click here.
Jeffrey Ostler is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Oregon, where he continues to teach part time. His most recent publications include Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (Yale University Press, 2019); “After 1776: Native Nations, Settler Colonialism, and the Meaning of America,” Journal of Genocide Research (2022, with co-author Karl Jacoby); and “The Denial of Genocide in California: The Case of Gary Clayton Anderson,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2022).