Angelica Lawson, Ethnic Studies and聽Cinema & Moving Image聽Studies Assistant Professor, has been awardedan the Inaugural聽Reparative Faculty Fellowship to Address聽Settler Colonialism from the Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA).聽鈥淓nacting Our Futures: Resistance and Resilience in Indigenous聽Women鈥檚 Resurgence Media,鈥� explores the intersections of Indigenous digital studies, literature, and ecocinema through Native American women鈥檚 creative works using resurgence theory鈥攁n Indigenous feminist framework most notably developed in the work of Anishinaabe scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Indigenous resurgence specifically refers to political strategies and cultural practices aimed at strengthening Indigenous peoplehood in ways that elevate Indigenous聽epistemologies and ontologies while interrogating legacies of colonialism in our societies, especially inequities along lines of gender and sexuality.聽Historically, art served both practical and ceremonial purposes, richly layered with symbolic meaning and deeply rooted in Indigenous thought systems. Today鈥檚 writers and filmmakers are doing similar work, invoking new modes for insuring continuance, and while the聽last three decades have seen a proliferation of Indigenous women鈥檚 literature, film, and digital media using Indigenous languages created by women who are heavily invested in community engagement鈥攂oth of which are elements central to Indigenous resurgence, these works have received scant attention in聽literary聽and film聽scholarship. Dr. Lawson's聽project seeks to reverse this trend, and to contribute to Indigenous feminist resurgence theory by engaging the work of four lesser-known Native women writers and filmmakers. She demonstrates how, through their community engagement and creative cultural productions, they assert Indigenous presence and futurity in the face of ongoing settler-colonial forces of erasure.