Article
Rattlesnake Kinship: Indigeneity, Disability, Animality
Disabilities Studies Quarterly
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2021
Disciplines
Department
Literature and Languages
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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Citation Information
Vivian Delchamps. "Rattlesnake Kinship: Indigeneity, Disability, Animality" Disabilities Studies Quarterly Vol. 41 Iss. 4 (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/vivian-delchamps/7/