Professor
Office: Chrysler Hall North 1154
Email: Esentsei.StaatsPangowish@uwindsor.ca
Phone: 519-253-3000
Indigenous tattooing and how it carries Indigenous law. When the colonialists arrived in Canada, they viewed tattoos as a characteristic of thieves. But among Indigenous communities, tattoos are an important part of kinship. My master’s thesis was on the Doctrine of Discovery and its impact on Haudenosaunee women. When I started the project, it was my anger at the system that propelled me forward, but over time it became more about making connections among communities. My passion is to build bridges between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, and the anger, the passion, and the love are all contained in this. But most of all, I want my students to learn that Indigenous communities do have structure, order, and we want to work with settlers to build a better future for all of us.
