Must-reads: Indigenous Pacific Islander scholarship

The following texts have shaped me as a Chamoru and Indigenous Pacific Islander scholar:

• Daughters of the Island: CHamoru Women Organizers of Guåhan and Other Writings by Laura M. Torres Souder

• bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans by Teresia Teaiwa

• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

• From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i by Haunani Kay Trask

• Our Sea of Islands by Epeli Hau’ofa

• “Inside Us the Dead” by Albert Wendt

• Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki by Emalani Case