Sonic Resistance
Panelists
Dr. Jacinta Toribio Torres
Jacinta Toribio Torres (Nahua), was born in Tepenahuac, Chicontepec, Veracruz. She is research faculty at the Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural (UVI), Huasteca, where she coordinates the Intercultural Management and Development Program for the bachelor’s degree; the MA program in Nahuatl language and culture “Tohtlatol y iwan tonemilis;” and the liaison area of the UVI Huasteca. Her research focuses on land tenure transformations of Chicontepec and Ixhuatlan de Madero’s indigenous peoples and communities during the 19th and 20th centuries. Currently, she is developing projects of language and culture revitalization of the original peoples of Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz. Mexico. Dr. Toribio Torres obtained her doctorate degree in history and regional studies from the Universidad Veracruzana, her MA in history and regional studies from the Colegio de San Luis, and her bachelor’s degrees in educational sciences with a specialty in social sciences from the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas.
Dr. Brenda Child
Brenda J. Child (Ojibwe) is Northrop Professor of American Studies and former chair of the Departments of American Studies (2016-19) and the Department of American Indian Studies (2009-12). She is the author of award-winning books of American Indian history, including Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940, (1998), which won the North American Indian Prose Award; Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community, (2012); Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education (with Brian Klopotek, 2014). Her 2014 book My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation won the American Indian Book Award and the Best Book in Midwestern History. She served as a member of the board of trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian-Smithsonian and was President (2017-2018) of the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association. Child was born on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota where she served as a member of a committee writing a new constitution for the 12,000-member nation.
Viki Eagle
Viki Eagle (Sicangu Lakota, Japanese) is a PhD Student on Tongva land in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. Her sub-fields are in Sociocultural Anthropology and American Indian Studies. She has spent a decade photographing her life as a contemporary Native American photographer with her community-based life project called “Real Life Indian,” that combines photojournalism and portraiture. Her current work photographs Native American Heavy Metal bands in a genre called “Rez Metal” from the southwest four corners. Her project draws from both socio-cultural anthropology and American Indian Studies, and speaks to Gen Xers, Millennial and Gen Z Native youth and their passion for music and the arts. Viki uses photo-ethnography as her research method to understand forms of community building as a social movement, resistance, indigenous knowledge, meaning making amongst Native communities, and nostalgia.
Dr. Veronica Pacheco
Veronica Pacheco is an ethnomusicologist specializing in ritual music of the Indigenous peoples of Mexico and other musical genres of Latin America and the Middle East. She received her PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include music and the politics of participation, collective performances of music as registers of Indigenous history, and the intersections of Indigenous sustainability and cultural rights. She directs two research initiatives in Mexico, “The Nahua Religious Music Project” and “The Urban Soundscapes Project.”
Resources from the Panelists
Paisajes de Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, México
Santa María Apipilhuasco, Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz; México: Restitución de Tierras 1960
Music, Participation & the Mountain: Rain Ceremonies in Chicontepec, Veracruz, Mexico
