Rattlesnake Kinship: Indigeneity, Disability, Animality
Document Type
Article
Source
Disabilities Studies Quarterly
Publication Date
Fall 2021
Volume
41
Issue
4
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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