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CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-22 Power and Politics in American Indian History Forum 7: Angry Inuk             In Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s documentary “Angry Inuk,” we learned about some of the challenges facing arctic indigenous communities. We see an indigenous family hunting and butchering a seal. For them, seal hunting is an important source of food and trade which they… Continue reading Film: Angry Inuk

CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-22 Power and Politics in American Indian History Forum 6: Trick or Treaty? While the corporate media focuses on perceived slights to its freedom, the number of missing and murdered indigenous women moves into the thousands. (NFB 0:00-2:00) Treaties were signed which made guarantees for indigenous people. The James Bay Treaty specifically guaranteed… Continue reading Power and Politics in American Indian History: Trick or Treaty?

CJ Trowbridge 2020-07-20 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 7 Nick Estes, Our History is the Future (2019), Chapter 6. Internationalism (pages 201-246) 45 pages             A new coalition rose up from the ashes of centuries of centuries of genocide. Leaders from surviving tribes all over the western hemisphere came together in Geneva to hold… Continue reading Nick Estes: Internationalism

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… Continue reading “Native Lives Matter”

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… Continue reading Nick Estes: Red Power

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… Continue reading Power and Politics in American Indian History: The Long Disaster of Amerika

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