Book Manuscript

Under Preparation

Blu Wakpa, Tria. Settler Colonial and Decolonial Choreographies: Native American Embodiment in Educational and Carceral Contexts

Journal Editorship  

Co-Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief with Sabrina Strings for Race and Yoga, the first peer-reviewed journal in the emerging field of Critical Yoga Studies. 2016-Present (published annually, five issues to date)

Book Chapters  

Published

Blu Wakpa, Tria. “Hozho Yoga: Indigenous Movements Illuminating Human and More-than-Human Interconnections.” In Practicing Yoga as Resistance: Voices of Color in Search of Freedom, edited by Cara Hagen, 133-155. London: Routledge, 2021.

In Production

Blu Wakpa, Tria. “Interconnected Movement Modalities in The Halluci Nation’s Stadium Pow Wow.” in Dance in US Popular Culture, edited by Jen Atkins.

Blu Wakpa, Tria. “Indigenous Dances: Lakota Bodies and Lands on the Frontlines.” In Milestones in Dance History, edited by Dana Tai Soon Burgess.

Blu Wakpa, Tria. “A Glint of Decolonial Love? An Academic Mother’s Meditation on Navigating and Leveraging the Ivory Tower.” In Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy, edited by Robin Minthorn, Christine Nelson, and Heather Shotton.

Blu Wakpa, Tria and Jennifer Musial. “Going Carceral? Analyzing Written and Visual Representations of Prison Yoga Programs.” In Carcerality Locally and Globally: Feminist Critiques of State Violence, edited by Shreerekha Subramanian. 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Published 

Mattingly, Kate and Tria Blu Wakpa. “Movement as Medicine: Indigenous Reclamation and Innovation during COVID-19.” The International Journal of Screendance, 12, 2021: 150-188.

Blu Wakpa, Tria. “Challenging Settler Colonial Choreographies During COVID-19: Acosia Red Elk’s Powwow Yoga.” Critical Stages/Scénes 23 (June 2021). https://www.critical-stages.org/23/challenging-settler-colonial-choreographies-during-covid-19-acosia-red-elks-powwow-yoga/?fbclid=IwAR1yL9GjolGy43U9L6Eeu8CRtGye3nzAIrxD4w-ARTYOufNgQAJUpE_P0eQ

Blu Wakpa, Tria, and George Blue Bird. “Zintkala Woihanbla (Bird Dreams): Drifting and Other Decolonial Performances for Survival and Prison Abolition.” Urdimento - Revista de Estudos em Artes Cênica 3, no. 39 (November-December 2020): 1-35.
https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/article/view/18882

Blu Wakpa, Tria. “Culture Creators and Interconnected Individualism: Rulan Tangen and Anne Pesata’s Basket Weaving Dance.” Dance Research Journal 48, no. 1 (April 2016): 107-125.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/dance-research-journal/article/abs/culture-creators-and-interconnected-individualism-rulan-tangen-and-anne-pesatas-basket-weaving-dance/1DCB380CB7190C373A687FE04DD906EC

Blu Wakpa, Tria. “A Constellation of Confinement: The Jailing of Cecelia Capture and the Deaths of Sarah Lee Circle Bear and Sandra Bland, 1895-2015.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 40, no. 1 (2016): 161-183.
https://meridian.allenpress.com/aicrj/article-abstract/40/1/161/211280/A-Constellation-of-Confinement-The-Jailing-of?redirectedFrom=fulltext

In Production

Blu Wakpa, Tria. “‘Aging’ Women of Color Engaging in Radical Movements: The Limitations and Possibilities of Leveraging Embodied Practices for ‘Radical Self-Love’” in Scholar & Feminist Online.

Under Review

Blu Wakpa, Tria. “From Buffalo Dance to Tatanka Kcizapi Wakpala, 1894-2020: Indigenous Human and More-than-Human Choreographies of Sovereignty and Survival” in American Quarterly.

Blu Wakpa, Tria. “Settler Colonial Choreography, Fixing, and the Divided Body: Cross-dancing at a Native American Men’s Prison Powwow” in Critical Scholarship on Indigenous Dance, edited by Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Maria Firmino-Castillo, and Karyn Recollet.