Transplanting settler colonialism: Blair Talbot, Claudia Berger, Jiyoung Lee, Kelli Hayes, Mickey Dennis, Chris Alen Sula, ‘Tending to Turtle Island: Indigenous Peoples, Settler Colonialism, and Plants in North America ’, prattsi.org, 2021 | settler colonial studies blog

Transplanting settler colonialism: Blair Talbot, Claudia Berger, Jiyoung Lee, Kelli Hayes, Mickey Dennis, Chris Alen Sula, ‘Tending to Turtle Island: Indigenous Peoples, Settler Colonialism, and Plants in North America ’, prattsi.org, 2021

16Feb21

Excerpt: From the earliest formulations of this project about plants, we knew that settler colonialism—understood to include “spatial removal, mass killings, and biocultural assimilation” (Wolfe, 2006: 409)—would be an important lens for this work, particularly as a group of non-Native graduate students and faculty, most of whom were born and raised on occupied land in the United States. As our research progressed, we recentered our thinking around Indigenous peoples, their uses of plants, and possibilities for imagining alternatives to the landscapes we see today—in line with Kauanui’s call to place Indigenous studies alongside discussions of settler colonialism (2016). This led us to engage the Lenape Center and its co-founder and co-director Curtis Zuniga, cultural director for the Delaware Tribe of Indians, who spoke to us about Lenape history, culture, and relationship to the environment, which we discuss below.

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