RESEARCH

Broadly speaking, Annita's research interests include Indigenous cartography, decolonizing and postcolonial geographies, Indigenous data sovereignty, violence against Indigenous peoples, femicide, Indigenous research methodologies, critical cartography, and legal geography.

Annita is a 2021 recipient of a Lynn Staeheli Award, which supports her doctoral research. Her ongoing research examines the ways in which colonial data on violence against Indigenous people and the narratives around it further map violence on Indigenous bodies, peoples, and lands, and also explores mapping praxes developed by Indigenous survivors of violence as a means of confronting colonial systems of power and imagining new geographies of justice and safety. In doing so, she asks the following questions:

What specific mechanisms are used to map violence on and against Indigenous peoples? What geographies of law, power, and knowledge production do they produce and rely on? What is at stake in these mapping projects?
What does an Indigenous anti-violence mapping praxis look like, and how might mapping practices centered on principles of Indigenous self determination confront colonial regimes and chart paths to decolonization?

Annita has published in a wide variety of peer-reviewed scholarly journals, online platforms, and community-based reports. For a full list of her publications, see below.

Academic Articles

Lucchesi, Annita Hetoevėhotohke’e. “Mapping Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls: Identifying and Moving Beyond Colonizing Data and Mapping Practices.” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 2022.
Ollivierre, Alison DeGraff, and Charla Burnett and Annita Hetoevehotohke’e Lucchesi. “Participatory Mapping.” International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. Wiley, 2021.
Luebke, Jeneile, and Maren Hawkins, Annita Lucchesi, Katheryn Klein, Jennifer Weitzel, Emily Deal, Ashley Ruiz, Anne Dressel, and Lucy Mkandawire-Vahlmu. “The Utility of Postcolonial and Indigenous Feminist Frameworks in Guiding Nursing Research and Practice About Intimate Partner Violence in the Lives of American Indian Women.” Journal of Transcultural Nursing, February 2021.
Rose-Redwood, Reuben, and Natchee Blu Barnd, Annita Hetoevehotohke’e Lucchesi, Sharon Dias, and Wil Patrick. “Decolonizing the Map: Recentering Indigenous Mappings.” Cartographica 55(3), 2020.
Lucchesi, Annita Hetoevehotohke’e. “Spatial Data and (De)Colonization: Incorporating Indigenous Data Sovereignty Principles into Cartographic Research.” Cartographica 55(3), 2020.
Lucchesi, Annita Hetoevehotohke’e. “Indigenous Trauma is Not a Frontier: Breaking Free from Colonial Economies of Trauma & Responding to Trafficking, Disappearances, and Deaths of Indigenous Women and Girls.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2019.
Lucchesi, Annita Hetoevehotohke'e. "For Ashley, Wayne, and Shayanna: Supporting Tribal College Students and Addressing Abuse." Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 30(4), 2019.
Lucchesi, Annita Hetoevehotohke'e."Spirit-Based Research: A Tactic for Surviving Trauma in Decolonizing Research." Journal of Indigenous Research, 7(1), 2019.
Lucchesi, Annita Hetoevehotohke’e. “Mapping Geographies of Canadian Colonial Occupation: Pathway Analysis of Murdered Indigenous Women.” Gender, Place, and Culture, 26(6), 2019.
Lucchesi, Annita Hetoevehotohke’e. ""Indians Don't Make Maps": Indigenous Cartographic Traditions and Innovations." American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 42(3), 2018.
Lucchesi, Annita. “Mapping for Social Change: Cartography and Community Activism in Mobilizing Against Colonial Gender Violence.” Mapping Meaning 2 (1), 2018.

Reports

Lucchesi, Annita Hetoevehotohke’e, et al. To’ Kee Skuy’ Soo Ney-Wo-Chek’ Year 2 Progress Report: MMIWG2 of Northern California. Sovereign Bodies Institute & Yurok Tribe. 2021.
Lucchesi, Annita Hetoevehohtohke’e, et al. “They Failed to Protect Me”: Enhancing Response to and Surveillance of Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People of California During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sovereign Bodies Institute & California Rural Indian Health Board. 2021.
Lucchesi, Annita, et al. "To' Kee Skuy' Soo Ney-Wo-Chek' Year 1 Progress Report: MMIWG2 of Northern California." Yurok Tribe & Sovereign Bodies Institute. 2020.
Lucchesi, Annita, et al. “MMIWG2 & MMIP Organizing Toolkit.” Sovereign Bodies Institute. 2020.
Lucchesi, Annita, et al. “Zuya Winyan Wicayu’onihan: Honoring Warrior Women.” Sovereign Bodies Institute & Brave Heart Society. 2019.
Lucchesi, Annita, and Abigail Echo-Hawk. "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls: A Snapshot of Data from 71 Urban Cities in the United States." Urban Indian Health Institute, 2018.

Reviews

Lucchesi, Annita. "Responding to Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 41 (3), 2018.
Lucchesi, Annita. “On Cartography (Review).” Transmotion 4 (1), 2018.

Maps

Lucchesi, Annita. Mapping the Indigenous World. Atlas in a Day: Community. Guerrilla Cartography. 2020.
Lucchesi, Annita. Food Insecurity & Indigenous Nunavummiut [map]; Threats to Indigenous Food Traditions in North America [map]. Food: an Atlas. Guerrilla Cartography. 2013.

Online Publications

Carroll, Stephanie Russo; Rodriguez-Lonebear, Desi; Akee, Randall; Lucchesi, Annita; Richards, Jennifer Rai. “Indigenous Data in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Straddling Erasure, Terrorism, and Sovereignty.” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences. Social Science Research Council; June 11, 2020.
Lucchesi, Annita. “How Universities Fail Native American Victims of Sexual Assault.” MSIs Unplugged; October 25, 2017.
Lucchesi, Annita. “Honoring Loretta Saunders.” Last Real Indians; March 2, 2014.
Lucchesi, Annita. “This Is Totally Your Grandma’s Social Movement: Women in Indigenous Nationhood Struggles.” Last Real Indians; November 20, 2013.