Angie Morrill facts for kids
Angie Morrill is a Native American scholar and teacher. She is a member of the Klamath Tribes in Oregon. She was born in Portland, Oregon. Angie has worked to help Native students. She was a recruitment officer at the University of Oregon. She also taught at Oregon State University. From 2016 to 2021, she led Native education programs for Portland Public Schools. Today, she advises on Native education. She teaches classes about Native studies at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University.
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Angie Morrill's Early Life and Education
Angie Morrill was born in 1965 in Portland, Oregon. Her mother, Peggy Jo Ball, was an artist. She was from the Modoc and Klamath tribes. Angie grew up in North Portland. She went to Jefferson High School there.
Her College Studies
In 2005, Angie earned her first degree. It was a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies. She studied at the University of Oregon. Later, in 2016, she earned her doctorate degree. This was from the University of California San Diego. Her doctorate was also in Ethnic Studies. She focused on "Native feminist methodologies." This means she studied ways of thinking from Native women's perspectives.
Her Dissertation Work
Angie's main project for her doctorate was called Towards A Native Feminist Reading Practice. In this work, she used family stories and tribal information. She showed how important Native feminist ideas are in Native studies. She also received a special fellowship. This allowed her to do more research at the University of California, Davis.
Angie Morrill's Work in Academia
Angie Morrill is known as a Native feminist scholar. Her work looks at history, memory, and difficult past events. She studies these topics through a Native feminist viewpoint. She focuses on "Native feminist methodologies." These are special ways of understanding the world. They are based on Indigenous Feminist Theory.
Collaborations and Publications
In 2013, Angie worked with Maile Arvin and Eve Tuck. They wrote an article together. It was called "Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections Between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy." This article was published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It explored how to challenge unfair systems. These systems connect settler colonialism (when new groups take over land) with heteropatriarchy (a system where men are in charge). They looked at this from a Native feminist view.
In 2016, Angie worked with Eve Tuck again. They collaborated with the Super Futures Haunt Collective. They published an article called "Before Dispossession, or Surviving It." This article was in a journal called Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. It talked about Indigenous ideas of settler colonialism. It also discussed Black ideas of anti-Blackness.
Individual Work and Dissertation
Also in 2016, Angie Morrill published her own article. It was called "Time Traveling Dogs (and Other Native Feminist Ways to Defy Dislocations)." Sage Publications published this work. In this article, she looked at a Native feminist painting. She used it to explore ideas of displacement and things that are lost.
Her doctorate paper, Toward a Native Feminist Reading Methodology, was published in 2016. In this work, she introduced a "Native feminist reading practice." This is a way of understanding stories and art. It helps to resist the idea that Native people disappear. Instead, it shows their strong presence. She analyzes different Native art and media using this method. She says that recognizing oneself is an act of survivance. Survivance means actively surviving and thriving. Through this method, she looks at the differences between how settlers and Indigenous people understand things. Angie hopes her method can be used to understand Native feminist stories better.
Other Work and Public Appearances
In May 2014, Angie Morrill took part in a conference. It was called "Alternative Sovereignties." This event was held at the University of Oregon. She spoke on a panel about "Gender, Jurisdiction, and Justice."
Art and Activism
Angie Morrill is also part of an activist art group. It is called the Super Futures Haunt Qollective (SFHQ). She uses the name Lady HOW in this group. Their art has been shown in galleries. These include The Alice Gallery in Seattle and the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz.
A digital art project by the group was published online. It was called "Super Furs for Super Futures 77: Beavereavement." This project is a digital magazine. It talks about the loss of Angie Morrill's son, Leroy Xavier Morrill, in 2021. It also mentions a unique historical event. In 1948, seventy-six beavers were moved by parachute. This happened in Idaho.
