« Facing the trauma of settler colonialism: Nicole A. Thomas, Brenda Owen, Anne L. Ersig, Lisa C. Bratzke, ‘Pathways and processes to the embodiment of historical trauma secondary to settler colonialism’, Journal Of Advanced Nursing, 2023
Settlers think they can be native (as settlers are made by conquest AND movement, it stands to reason that Indigenous people are made by permanence AND subjection, so no, settlers cannot be ‘Indigenous’): Sibusiso Maseko, Kevin Durrheim, ‘Simmering hostilities, group identity, and contested autochthony beliefs in settler societies’, in Anna Kende, Barbara Lášticová, The Psychology of Politically Unstable Societies, Routledge, 2023 »

On the brevity of settler colonial forevers: Hartman Deetz,’Colonization is still shaping our daily realities as Indigenous peoples’, Cultural Survival, 2023

16Aug23

Excerpt:  I write as a Mashpee Wampanoag. It is who I am and inevitably shapes my views. The Wampanoag have the distinction of being among the “first contact” Tribes in the Americas, and as such we have a four-centuries-old tradition of interacting with the forces of colonization. This means we have four centuries of grievances, but also four centuries of solutions based on experience. We have seen time and again that the promises of “forever” rarely last more than 30 years. We have seen that when the powers of colonization seek to commodify a resource, they often do so one small piece at a time; what they don’t take this year, they will take in 30 years’ time. 


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