Showcasing Native diversity

raduate student Marissa Carmi is contributing to research about Oneida history, identity and sovereignty while supporting the larger narrative of Native diversity that has long been silenced.

Through research about Oneida history and sovereignty, Marissa Carmi hopes to document and demonstrate the diversity of thought across Native nations in the United States, deconstructing stereotypes about Native people.

Carmi is a Ph.D. student in American Indian and Indigenous studies and a citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She said her work on studying both her own people as well as the Oneida Indian Nation in New York “is part of a broader effort to demonstrate that Native people are not homogenous … we are not a monolith. We have a diversity of ideas in Indigenous communities that is vibrant, and I want to show that.”...
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