Chris Finley
Title
Chris Finley
Birthplace
Colville Confederated Tribes
Primary Sources
Finley, C., & Townsend, C. (2022). "All he had told them . . . was true": Native American history and the witnessing of abuse in the archive. Native American and Indigenous Studies, 9(2), 95–123. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/863584
Finley, C. (2011). Decolonizing the queer Native body (and recovering the Native BullDyke): ‘Bringing sexy back’ and out of Native studies closet. In Driskill, Q.-L., Finley, C., Gilley B.J. & Morgensen, S.L (Eds.), Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature (pp. 31–42). University of Arizona Press.
Finley, C. (2011). Violence, genocide, and captivity: Exploring cultural representations of Sacajawea as a universal mother of conquest. American Indian Cultures and Research Journal, 35(4), 191–208. https://doi.org/10.1795/aicr.35.4.p2055822331016l0
Finley, C. (2020). Building Maroon Intellectual Communities. In T. King, J. Navarro & A. Smith (Ed.), Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness (pp. 362-370). New York, USA: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012023-021
Finley, C. (2011). Decolonizing the queer Native body (and recovering the Native BullDyke): ‘Bringing sexy back’ and out of Native studies closet. In Driskill, Q.-L., Finley, C., Gilley B.J. & Morgensen, S.L (Eds.), Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature (pp. 31–42). University of Arizona Press.
Finley, C. (2011). Violence, genocide, and captivity: Exploring cultural representations of Sacajawea as a universal mother of conquest. American Indian Cultures and Research Journal, 35(4), 191–208. https://doi.org/10.1795/aicr.35.4.p2055822331016l0
Secondary Sources
Lochmiller, C. R., Perrone, F., & Finley, C. (2024). Understanding School Leadership’s Influence on Teacher Retention in High-Poverty Settings: An Exploratory Study in the U.S. Education Sciences, 14(5), 545. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14050545
Jacob, M., Gonzales, K., Finley, C., & RunningHawk Johnson, S. (2019). Theorizing Indigenous student resistance, radical resurgence, and reclaiming spiritual teaching about tma’aakni (respect). Religions Journal, 10(4), 286. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10040286Driskill, Q.-L., Finley, C., Gilley, B.L., & Morgensen, S.L. (Eds.). (2011). Queer Indigenous studies: Critical interventions in theory, politics, and literature. University of Arizona Press.
Extra Resources
Chris Finley. Queer Indigenous and two-spirit peoples: We come out of the cupboard, not the closet. October 30, 2020. LGBTQ Resource Center at Virginia Tech. YouTube. Accessed September 30, 2022. https://youtu.be/g7xiN3miYpA
Collection
Citation
“Chris Finley,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/548.