Forthcoming Talk: Brittani Orona, Vizualizing Decolonization on the Klamath River Basin

Please join us for this talk by Brittani Orona, the very first Lippuner scholar – a collaboration between the University of Kent and the Indigenous Rights NGO, Incomindios, UK.

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Brittani Orona is an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at UC Davis in Native American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Human Rights.

Brittani Orona

Brittani completed her Master of Arts in Native American Studies at UC Davis in 2018 and her Master of Arts in Public History at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) in 2014. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from Humboldt State University in 2010.

Brittani is interested in repatriation, federal Indian law, cultural resources management, indigenous environmental justice, and environmental history as they relate to California Indian tribes. Her dissertation research focuses on Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk perspectives of visual sovereignty, memory, human and water rights on the Klamath River Basin.

The Lippuner Scholarship is a collaboration between the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, University of Kent and Incomindios UK