Bio
Brook Colley is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina with Wasco, Japanese, and Irish heritage. Brook was raise in Corvallis, Oregon, attended Southern Oregon University, and is now a graduate student in Native American Studies at University of California Davis.
Dissertation
Reframing Tribal Relations: The Case of Cascade Locks (working title)
Research Interests
Tribal health and healing; Oregon Tribes; Kiksht speaking peoples; Indian Gaming and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; Federal Indian policies and laws; Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation act; videography sovereignty; and Contemporary forms of resistance, sovereignty, and self-determination; Strategies of decolonization; Social, political and economic dynamics of Native communities; Tribal governance and community development; Native women; Native art as a form of resistance; Cherokee Pottery revivals.
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Projects
"Uneasy Remains" Film Project
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