Abstract:This article examines the ways in which Indigenous migrants are folded into the logics of settler colonialism through an analysis of the human rights film Discovering Dominga (2003). The documentary follows Denese Joy Becker/Dominga Sic Ruiz, who was adopted by a white family as a child, as she comes to learn that she is a survivor of the 1982 Río Negro Massacres committed in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, against the Maya Achí people. Through visual analysis I examine how Indigenous displacement and transnational a… Show more
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