I am an environmental historian and Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Brown University, working at the intersection of Indigenous Studies, Critical Environmental Justice, and Science and Technology Studies.
My dissertation, tentatively titled, “The Forest Keepers: An Environmental History of the Menominee Nation from Colonization to Climate Change,” investigates how European and American settler colonialism and capitalism disrupted Menominee relationships with the land, waterways, and ecosystems of the western Great Lakes region. Using archival and ethnographic methods, I tell a story of Menominee survival, adaptation, and resurgence through their historical and contemporary struggles for environmental and climate justice.
My most recent writing focuses on the use of drones by Water Protectors at Standing Rock, as well as the movement toward renewable energy sovereignty in Indigenous communities in the United States.
Gregory Hitch 