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RESEARCH

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CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

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  • Identification, study, and management of cultural keystone wildlife

  • Indigenous range ecology, wildlife management, and environmental/earth sciences methods & applications

  • Landscape genetics, with particular focus on spatially explicit genetic simulation, Indigenous landscape genetics, and conservation science

  • Theorizing Indigenous sciences

  • Uplifting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color sciences and ways of knowing; underrepresented scientists; addressing racism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy in science


 

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

 

  • Turkey Feather Warriors, Bear Hearted Mothers, Wolf Minded Women, and Followers of Bison: Redefining Concepts of Cultural Keystone Wildlife on Indigenous Terms to Advance Northern Great Plains Indigenous Range Wildlife Ecology

  • Mapping the Future(s) of Atlantic Salmon in Lake Champlain: Using Spatially Explicit Genetic Simulation to Assess Impacts of Thiamine Deficiency Complex and Reimagine and Restore Kinship Based Fisheries Management

  • É-ho'néheve: Reclaiming Indigenous Women’s Power as Scientists, Knowledge Gatherers, and Future Bearers

  • Heme’konohvehonevestse naa Vo’ho’kohtaestse: Healing our Northern Cheyenne People by Remembering our Warriors who Stood Against Colonial Sexual Violence

  • Advancing Wildlife Management Informed by a Comprehensive Survey of Indigenous Cultural Keystone Wildlife of Northern Plains Rangelands

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RESEARCH SKILLS & EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

 

  • Leading scholar on Indigenous data sovereignty, Indigenous geography and earth sciences, decolonial and Indigenous cartography, Indigenous research and methodologies, Indigenous feminisms, violence against Indigenous peoples (especially as it relates to land-based violence), politics and methods of mapping genocide and mass death, feminist data science, intersections of extractive industries and gender & colonial violence

  • Over a decade of demonstrated experience working with diverse populations, particularly tribal nations and among Indigenous peoples

  • Over a decade of participation in international Indigenous gathering spaces and demonstrated leadership across Indigenous communities nationally and internationally

  • Over a decade of experience developing and advocating for research-grounded policy at tribal, state, federal, and international levels

  • Over a decade of experience in grassroots movement building and community organizing, which successfully led to tribal, state, and federal legislation being developed and passed - including taskforces, study commissions, and research & data best practices

  • Over a decade of experience leading trauma-informed research and Indigenous community building centered on decolonization and self-determination

  • Over five years of non-profit research leadership

  • Culturally/regionally diverse array of experiences in education with strong emphasis on minority-serving and tribal curricula and program design

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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. 

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Academic Articles

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Reports

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Reviews

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  • Lucchesi, Annita Hetoevėhotohke’e. “[REVIEW] Examining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps.” Plains Anthropologist, forthcoming.

  • 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

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  • 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

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© 2026 by Annita Lucchesi.

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