Forging is a digital-first journal for critically imagining Native futures. Its editors and contributors are deeply committed to changing the way we study and interpret Indigenous survivance in the face of settler colonialism, with a focus on engaging, highlighting, and learning from Native voices.

Governance, Essay

Reclaiming Birth Sovereignty

Maymangwa Flying Earth & Nīa MacKnight

Nov 14, 2024

The United States is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis at staggering rates, especially for Indigenous people. A collaboration between reproductive justice advocate Maymangwa Flying Earth and photographer Nīa MacKnight, the following essay highlights different strategies, including birthing centers and individual practices that provide community-care models in which midwives honor the ceremony of birth through compassion, patience, and holistic care.

Governance, Q&A

‘Our way of life doesn't mean anything to them’: A Q&A on cultural resistance in Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ Nation

Aaron Fernando

Oct 23, 2024

In the face of attacks by the U.S.-backed Clint Halftown government, three members of Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ Nation use places of cultural and language learning to resist in their community.

Correction*, Essay

every pattern needs a passage

Sarah Biscarra Dilley

May 30, 2024

In this essay, co-published in the Spring 2024 edition of Post/doc by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, Director of Indigenous Programs & Relationality Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini) explores modes of generational, matrilineal knowing that permeate our perceptions of “correct” ways of being in the world.

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Governance, EssayReclaiming Birth SovereigntyNov 14, 2024Governance, Q&A‘Our way of life doesn't mean anything to them’: A Q&A on cultural resistance in Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ NationOct 23, 2024Correction*, Essayevery pattern needs a passageMay 30, 2024Connectivity, Essay‘We Connect Whole Families’May 6, 2024Connectivity, Art HistoryGagizhibaajiwan, or Living With ParadoxApr 30, 2024Connectivity, AnalysisMaintaining Diné K'é OnlineApr 23, 2024Connectivity, EssayReimagining Native MotherhoodApr 15, 2024Connectivity, Design CriticismThe Impermanent Beauty of Cree DesignApr 5, 2024Language, ConversationSpeaking With Your Cat: An Artist and Researcher Talk Artificial Intelligence, Community, and Cultural ExpressionJan 26, 2024Language, Analysispiyêsiwak wâhkôhtowin/thunderbird’s kinshipJan 18, 2024Language, HistoryRadical Indigenous Contemporaneity in ʻKe Aloha O Ka Haku’Jan 8, 2024Language, Art History(Un)seen: Rotuman Fạ’iDec 27, 2023Language, EssayAsking for Permission/Listening for ConsentDec 18, 2023Knowing, EssayPostmodernism Is Not PermissionOct 18, 2023Knowing, Q&A‘Clay. . . Lets You Leave Your Mark Exactly How You Put It Down’: An Interview With Raven HalfmoonSep 30, 2023Knowing, FeatureFinding HomeSep 28, 2023Seed, Criticism‘A Love Song to Ohlone Culture’Jun 23, 2023Seed, How-toHow to Make a Goathead SoftJun 23, 2023Seed, Q&AQ&A With Lucy GrignonJun 23, 2023Seed, Nonfiction essayPlanting Tobacco While the Ancestors LaughJun 23, 2023Seed, Photo essaySeeds, Bodies & Territory in Cerro QuilishJun 23, 2023

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