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Jaquetta Shade-Johnson (PhD, Michigan State University) is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and an Assistant Professor of Cultural Rhetorics. Her research and teaching at the intersections of cultural rhetorics, Indigenous studies, digital storytelling, and environmental humanities is primarily focused on how Indigenous communities make meaning through rhetorical, embodied, material, and storied relationships with the land. Her current book project, tentatively��titled Kinship, Clans, Hills, and Homelands: A Constellation of Cherokee Matrilineal Identity, is a constellative archival and land-based autoethnographic historiography which addresses the rhetorical erasure and recoding of Cherokee matrilineal and matriarchal identities as patrilineal and patriarchal from the Assimilation Era through the present day to illuminate the impacts and legacy of gendered colonialism on matrilineal tribal clan identity and matriarchal power, and to envision possibilities of reclamation and restoration of ��matriarchal structures within Cherokee society toward an abundant tribal future. Jaquetta is resident faculty in the Writing, Rhetoric, Information, Technology, and Ecology (WRITE) Lab in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric (PWR), as well as affiliated faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies and core faculty in the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS). Jaquetta is a member of the Digadatseli’i ᏗᎦᏓᏤᎵᎢ Cherokee Scholars and is a founding member of the Cherokee Collective for Ecologies and Foodways (CCEF).��