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Beth Piatote, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC-Berkeley, is the author of Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship and Law in Native American Literature (Yale 2013).  Her current project explores the ways in which Native American writers have drawn upon sensory representations such as sound and synesthesia to produce a distinct legal imaginary that contests settler-colonial incursion and affirms indigenous politics and aesthetics. She is also at work on translations of Ni:mi:pu (Nez Perce) literary texts and is collaborating with Berkeley's department of Linguistics to create an audio dictionary of the Nez Perce language that will be available to academics and community members working on indigenous language study, continuity, and rejuvenation.