Category: Blog
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“Native Lives Matter”
CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-20 Power and Politics in American Indian History Lakota People’s Law Project Report, “Native Lives Matter” Despite systemic violence against native people beginning on the first day of the occupation of “America” by the settler colonists who would birth the white imperial ethnostate, and despite a hundred million murdered native people and billions…
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Nick Estes: Red Power
CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-20 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 6: Red Power Nick Estes, Our History is the Future (2019), Chapter 5, Red Power The Red Power movement is the name for a broad range of native social justice and freedom movements. (Estes 149) One organization under this umbrella was the American…
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Power and Politics in American Indian History: The Long Disaster of Amerika
CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-16 Power and Politics in American Indian History Forum 5 This is a summary of season 1, episode 8 of the documentary series Rise. After the white imperial ethnostate of Amerika “purchased” the Missouri River Basin from France, explorers were sent in to map the territory and inform the countless people who had…
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Power and Politics in American Indian History: Colonial Dispositions of Land, Race, and Hunger
CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-13 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 5b Alyosha Goldstein, “The Ground Not Given: Colonial Dispositions of Land, Race, and Hunger” (2018, 83-106) The united states is a system of white colonial agriculture built on the exploitation, displacement, and extermination of nonwhite groups for the benefit of white colonists. (Goldstein…
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Nick Estes: Flood
CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-13 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 5 Nick Estes, Our History is the Future (2019), Chapter 4, Flood After wounded knee, the white imperial ethnostate shifted it’s extermination and displacement strategy from an overtly violent one to a covertly violent one. Legal action and treaty violations took the place of…
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Kanehsatake: 270 Years Of Resistance
CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-09 Power and Politics in American Indian History Kanehsatake: 270 Years Of Resistance In the documentary “Kanehsatake: 270 Years Of Resistance”, we learned that over a long period, the municipality of Oka stole swathes of land from the Mohawk tribe for a golf course, including a grave yard. Peaceful protests were met with…
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Moon Catcher
CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-09 Astronomy 2 What planet would you colonize first? Why and how? Mars is the obvious choice but there are a few problems we would need to solve first. It needs a magnetic field, and some oceans. Having read science fiction for decades and considered this question at some length, I keep returning…
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Power and Politics in American Indian History: War
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-22 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 4 Nick Estes, Our History is the Future (2019), Chapter 3, War The history of the United States has always followed the same process; steal land from other people so the empire can expand, then replace those people with white colonial settlers and…
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The Slow-Motion Mass Suicide Of American Neo-Conservatism
I’m sure you’ve heard the claim, “You’ll get more conservative as you get older.” Throughout the middle of the twentieth century, the reality was that our society was designed to kill anyone who wasn’t a conservative. In the last six months, this trend has reversed in a big way. War and racism were the two…
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Power and Politics in American Indian History: Sacred Water, Standing Rock I
CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-02 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response: Sacred Water, Standing Rock I It was very compelling to hear the story of the black snake and the end of the world; the argument that the people need to stand up to the black snake or the world will end. I can see…