Exploring Kinship, Nationhood, and the Power of Imagination

Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation) is a professor, author, and cultural critic whose work bridges Indigenous literary history, Cherokee Studies, Indigenous kinship, belonging, nationhood, and the other-than-human, while also extending into gender and sexuality studies, animal studies, and speculative fiction.

I write about Cherokee intellectual history, Indigenous literatures and studies, politics, representations of Indigenous peoples in speculative fiction and popular culture, and misunderstood animals like badgers and raccoons. I approach these subjects through a few core concerns: storytelling, sovereignty, responsibility, and our relationships to one another and to the other-than-human world.