Teresa Montoya

Teresa Montoya is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her research and media production focuses on contemporary dilemmas of environmental stewardship and tribal governance in relation to historical legacies of land dispossession and resource extraction across the Indigenous Southwest. She is Diné and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation.

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Scorched-Earth, Poisoned Water: Settler Violence from Diné Bikéyah to Palestine

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Scorched-Earth, Poisoned Water: Settler Violence from Diné Bikéyah to Palestine

Settler colonialism has been a useful framework to comparatively analyze violent histories of dispossession across myriad geographies and political contexts. Ho... More

Stockpile: From Nuclear Colonialism to “Clean” Energy Futures

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Stockpile: From Nuclear Colonialism to “Clean” Energy Futures

In one of his last acts as president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an omnibus spending bill in December 2020 that allocated $75 million to establish... More

Violence on the Ground, Violence Below the Ground

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Violence on the Ground, Violence Below the Ground

The actions unfolding at Standing Rock are among the most significant Indigenous mobilizations in recent memory. Since the establishment of the original Iŋyaŋ W... More