Denali YoungWolfe
Research Area
Entrance Cohort
Education
MA (Indigenous Studies), University of Saskatchewan
BA (Indigenous Studies/Criminology), Simon Fraser University
Assoc. of Arts (Indigenous Studies), Langara College
About
Dr. Denali YoungWolfe finished their PhD entitled, The Âhkameyihtamowin Project (We Rise): Mapping Indigenous Cartographies of Assurgence, in March 2026. Through narrative and spatial analysis of 500 stories of contemporary Indigenous role models, their work developed the theory of “assurgency” to show how Indigenous nationhood is grounded in relational political systems that generate authority and legitimacy through kinscapes.
Read more about their work on the Public Scholars site: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/campus-community/meet-our-students/youngwolfe-denali.
Research
Research Areas
Colonial, Post-colonial theories & practice, Indigenous politics, Political Theory of land & sovereignty
Publications
YoungWolfe. 2016. How I came to be raised by wolves. The First People Child & Family Review. 11(2): 6-7.
Awards
Joseph Armand Bombardier SSHRC
Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship Bridge Funding
Additional Description
Conference Activity:
Canadian Political Science Association. Vancouver. UBC. 2019
Critical Ethnic Studies Association. UBC 2019
Humanities, Arts, Science & Technology Alliance & Collab. 2019
Forestry in Place. Indigenous Relations. UBC 2019
Indigenous Brilliance. Reading Series. Vancouver. 2019
Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium. SFU/UBC 2019
Prairie Political Science Association: Banff Centre. 2018
Rising Up. Indigenous Knowledges. U of M. 2018
Event Organizer:
Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium 2022 & 2021
Art, Memory, Justice Symposium. 2020 & 2019