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Kim TallBear

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23 Jan

when we are told to simply trust SCIENCE---"LET THE SCIENCE SPEAK"--are we supposed to ignore that science has been built on the bodies of the marginalized with little regard for our agency & capacity to consent? are libs truly this ignorant of their colonial foundation?

BTW I don't take much time for people without a basic grasp of (settler) colonialism and the ongoing role of scientific practices within that. And who can't bother to read my twitter bio or click on a URL before asking and arguing super basic points that deny ongoing colonialism.

Native Studies 115: Indigenous Peoples and Technoscience students are reading this article. i assigned b/c it gives a quick overview of colonial science history & contemporary institutional inheritances, but it curiously downplays ongoing (US) empire. smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

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Kim TallBear

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15 Sep 20

Forced hysterectomies, theft of children, people sacrificed in pandemics, colonial devastation to the environment thus dispossessing and starving people--none of this is new or adequately explained in a Trumpian turn toward fascism.

He is but another manifestation of the core values that prompt these forms of violence, which have been key genocidal tactics of the US for a long time ("genocide" as defined in article II of the UN definition).

One only need to look at what the US has done historically to perceived "savages" both here and overseas to see what they will do to maintain an always white supremacist state. These kind of acts are foundational to US existence, not aberrations.

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Kim TallBear

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3 Jul 20

i've studied scientists who study human migration via genomics. i've also studied Indigenous, feminist, Black, African, and other diverse People’s accounts of science & technology history. I’ve learned 3 things about Indigenous histories: 1/6

1) i've no doubt “Europeans” weren't first to "discover America." A) There were already humans here. B) Peoples from other continents & islands sailed oceans blue way before the murderer Columbus & built ancient relations w/ one other. We have non-Euro documentation of this; 2/6

2) I’ve learned that ancient travelers do not render Indigenous peoples in the “Americas” “immigrants too,” human societies originating on other continents who may have visited here cannot usurp the Indigeneity of People’s long co-constituted with these continents. 3/6

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Kim TallBear

@KimTallBear

12 Feb 20

It strikes me that the Native must finally be sacrificed to save the empire. To be clear, I don't think US empire will survive. But as it declines and desperate Americans get more fearful, they get louder like during the Indian wars to eliminate, displace & become us.

for me, most cities in the US cause me low-grade heartbreak if not high-grade. i look around. I don't see Indigenous people everywhere. I see them in Edmonton everywhere. I was getting bitter living in the cosmopolitan US (e.g. Berkeley or Boston).

i don't mind seeing non-Natives of course--I was raised as a good Dakota to be curious about difference, to make kin. But the fact that Native people do not comprise a statistically significant population is the outcome of genocidal settler policies. i can't unsee that.

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Kim TallBear

@KimTallBear

5 Feb 20

Seriously? As critical race theorist Cheryl Harris showed way back in '93 , the white power structure seizes the RIGHT TO DEFINE ALL RACIAL CATEGORIES. This is what #pretendians are doing, defining the Native w/o regard for Indigenous definitions.
essence.com/news/politics/…

& non-whites shore up white supremacy when they insist on definitions of Indigeneity forged in white supremacy. After stealing land & resources, white people & their institutions stole Indigenous children, bones, & blood. "Identity" theft is part of long line of appropriation.

if you defend her right to ID individually as Cherokee & Native (in part via DNA), you defend white supremacist rights to partition us all into (hierarchical) races, which guards access to the privileges of whiteness, Indigenous land & life that the (white) nation state claims.

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Kim TallBear

@KimTallBear

18 Jan 20

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Just in case you missed this last year. & please don't "But Trump!" me. Many of you talk nonstop about him. His racism is intellectually unchallenging. The insidious anti-Indigeneity of Warren, however, is a final act of colonial theft. hcn.org/issues/51.2/tr… @highcountrynews

The avalanche of apologist denials from her supporters this last year, the demeaning of Cherokee & other Indigenous experts' analyses of this topic reveals even more the willful complicity of so many US Americans in ongoing colonial theft.

Which does not mean I'm ranking racist acts. Rather i see them as interconnected and mutually sustaining.

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