‘Settler colonialism depends on erasing Native peoples’: J. Kehaulani Kauanui (ed.), Speaking of Indigenous Politics Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders, University of Minnesota Press, 2018 | settler colonial studies blog

‘Settler colonialism depends on erasing Native peoples’: J. Kehaulani Kauanui (ed.), Speaking of Indigenous Politics Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders, University of Minnesota Press, 2018

27May18

Description: Many people learn about Indigenous politics only through the most controversial and confrontational news: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s efforts to block the Dakota Access Pipeline, for instance, or the battle to protect Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, a site sacred to Native peoples. But most Indigenous activism remains unseen in the mainstream—and so, of course, does its significance. J. Kēhaulani Kauanui set out to change that with her radio program Indigenous Politics. Issue by issue, she interviewed people who talked candidly and in an engaging way about how settler colonialism depends on erasing Native peoples and about how Native peoples can and do resist.

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