ABSTRACT
Reimagining infrastructure is emerging as central to the work of contemporary authors writing in the Indigenous Futurist genre of decolonial apocalypse. Taking up Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018) and Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning (2018), this chapter investigates how each author treats apocalyptic events as containing the potential to overturn the extractive and expropriative land development practices at the base of the colonial project on Turtle Island. By focusing on transforming infrastructural relations, these authors aesthetically render the complex implications of a fully realized decolonial future in which material conditions become the focal point of resurgence practices.
