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Darren Edward Lone Fight. MHA Nation. I am the first Indigenous tenure-track faculty at Dickinson College. My relatives are buried in the Carlisle Indian Industrial School cemetery, five minutes from my office. It is not incidental that I am here.
My work has moved from Indigenous Futurism and revision aesthetics to archival ontology to sovereignty architecture. I follow the questions. Counter-interface theory is the current frame — general theory from Indigenous experience, applicable anywhere. The paper establishes priority. The ideas are the things that last, with proper persistence conditions.
I think in structural analogies, and I work shamelessly across every domain the questions require.
Sovereign Relational Architecture — SRA-2
The first computational implementation of counter-interface theory. Persistence conditions as infrastructure. Refusal as a design outcome, not a failure state.
Counter-Interface Theory
General theory emerging from Indigenous experience. Four directions. Four chapters. The paper is nearly out.
Center for the Futures of Native Peoples
Founded. Handed off. $800k Mellon Foundation grant. National advisory board. Carlisle, PA — five minutes from the first federally funded off-reservation Indian boarding school. The address is the argument.
Teaching
Indigenous Futurism. Indigenous Intellectual Traditions. American Futures. Weird: Structures of Strangeness. Dickinson College.
"Creating an alliance and salvaging what you need … in order to resist something that seems completely unbeatable — that's a deeply resonant story."
"I like returning to the same piece of art multiple times. Tracking the evolution and change of my relationship to a piece can offer me something different — something I didn't see before."
"I try to make sure to visit them periodically just to let them know that I'm here, and that I know they're there."
"Affecting change from the inside out as an Indigenous scholar."
lonefigd@dickinson.edu