Kaitlin Reed, Assistant Professor

Native American Studies

Biography: 

Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) is an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her research is focused on tribal land and water rights, extractive capitalism, and settler colonial political economies. She is the author of Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California. This book connects the historical and ecological dots between the Gold Rush and the Green Rush, focusing on capitalistic resource extraction and violence against indigenous lands and bodies

Areas of Interest: 

tribal land and water rights, extractive capitalism, and settler colonial political economies

Kaitlin Reed, Assistant Professor
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