My Lingít name is Xéetl'ee and I am of the Kiks.ádi Clan’s Kaxhátjaa Hít [Shattering or Herring House] in Sitka, Alaska. I am a citizen of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska and I am also of Norwegian, Kvensk, English, and French descent. I live between Sitka and Olympia, and places I have also called home are California (Chumash and Ohlone Lands) and Berlin, Germany.

  

I am an artist and scholar that works in community-based creative research. My areas of practice include: movement, dance, performance, media-making, drawing, Indigenous science, food sovereignty, and cultural reclamation work. My creative research questions focus on our embodied relations to the more-than-human - land, water, animal relatives, ancestors, and technology. 

 

Women of my clan are known as Kaxhátjaashaa [Herring Ladies] and this responsibility is central to my work within my community. My collaborations focus on the rematriation of Herring Lady embodied protocols with Yaaw [Pacific Herring] to co-create ecosystems, and the revitalization of our clan house, Kaxhátjaa Hít. I am grateful to my collaborators and teachers, Elders, and culture bearers who guide me through this work. 

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Within academia I engage within the fields of critical Indigenous Studies, Improvisation and Performance Studies, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, and art practice fields- Visual, Media, and Performing Arts. I earned my PhD and MA in Native American and Indigenous Studies at UC Davis, and my BA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley. I currently teach at Evergreen State College. 
 

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