Category: AIS460 Power and Politics in American Indian History

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… Continue reading 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 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… Continue reading Nick Estes: Flood

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… Continue reading Kanehsatake: 270 Years Of Resistance

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… Continue reading Power and Politics in American Indian History: War

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… Continue reading Power and Politics in American Indian History: Sacred Water, Standing Rock I

CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-22 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 3 Nick Estes, Our History is the Future (2019), Chapter 2, Origins The North American white ethnostate has seen several iterations – currently it’s called the United States – but whether we’re talking about the current iteration or one of the previous ones, it… Continue reading Power and Politics in American Indian History: Origins

CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-22 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 2 K-Sue Park, “Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America” (2016, 1006-1035) 29 pages The article starts out by describing a change that happened in the jurisprudence of early America; land became liable for debts. (Park 1) This change had wide-reaching side-effects and set… Continue reading Power and Politics in American Indian History: Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America

CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-18 Power and Politics in American Indian History Forum 1 Real estate developers are digging up and destroying sacred indigenous sites to replace them with temples to capitalism, erasing history and indigenous culture in the process, according to the speakers. This is just one example where young people today are not just being… Continue reading Power and Politics in American Indian History: Land Acknowledgement

CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-18 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 1: Siege                  The story begins with a declaration of war on the KXL pipeline by the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in March of 2014. (Estes 33) The tribe is concerned with the potential dangers to their water supply if the planned… Continue reading Nick Estes: Siege