Professional Title
Assistant Professor
About Jonnelle Walker
Jonnelle Walker (Ojibwe, Syrian, Swedish) is a FDL Ojibwe scholar born and raised in the hillside of Duluth. Their work is an artistic, and theoretical exploration of the stories, spatialities, temporalities, and worldviews that inform Anishinaabe understandings of place. Her dissertation, titled “Footnotes of a Misaabekong Rugrat”, examines the relationship between colonial infrastructure, land-theft, and Indigenous erasure to highlight how Indigenous peoples in the hillside of Duluth strategically and artistically navigate colonial violence to create communities and networks of care in spite of ongoing removals and dispossessions.
Publications
- Huaman, Elizabeth Sumida, and Jonnelle Walker. "Beyond sustainability: Indigenous Knowledge Systems for locally and globally renewing earth relations." International Journal of Educational Development 103 (2023): 102935.
- Walker, Jonnelle. "Wendigocene: A Story of Hunger." Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health (2023).