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I wish that there were a more diplomatic way to say this, but the plain fact is that Obama, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, lied to the Tribal Nations Summit Conference, and to the world, on December 16. I do not relish raining on the parade of those who took Obama […]
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I consider myself always available to acknowledge the wrongs of settler colonialism in Australia, but I do not like being cornered in this way. I can already tell that I won’t get along with this amnesic, misinformed, green-eyed git. The matter is serious, though. I sigh in brief repose, and then my beer glass goes […]
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Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the first issue of settler colonial studies is now available for your viewing. Check it out here. In this stage of its life, settler colonial studies is an online, open-access journal. There are may benefits of such a medium (among them, universally free access, and immediate registration […]
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Daniel Morley Johnson, ‘From the Tomahawk Chop to the Road Block: Discourses of Savagism in Whitestream Media’, American Indian Quarterly 35, 1 (2011) Typically, the news media have tended to portray Natives as a conquered people, a poor minority in a rich country, militant activists, remnants of an ancient North American past, and so on. […]
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Here’s a teaser for the forthcoming settler colonial studies 1 (2011). ARTICLES Lorenzo Veracini: Introducing settler colonial studies pp. 1-12 Patrick Wolfe: After the Frontier: Separation and Absorption in US Indian Policy pp. 13-50 Scott Lauria Morgensen: The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now pp. 51-75 Ivan Sablin and Maria Savelyeva: Mapping Indigenous […]
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‘In many parts of Israel, imported plants have crowded out native species’, Haaretz reported yesterday. “Many years ago, eucalyptus trees were planted in the Dan reserve and proliferated rapidly,” Dr. Didi Kaplan, the authority’s ecologist for the northern region, explained yesterday. “They are hindering the development of the reserve’s natural vegetation, among other things by […]
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A Newcastle University Professor says there is much to learn from Europe’s indigenous entrepreneurs when it comes to small business and the economy. Professor Dennis Foley will spend several months in Ireland later this year, studying that country’s native community, known as the Travellers. His research will investigate the similarities between the Irish and Australian […]
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maori origins
TVNZ: A New Zealand historian says the idea of Maori being indigenous may need to be reconsidered. Research led by Janet Wilmshurst from New Zealand’s Landcare Research, and Atholl Anderson, from the Australian National University, suggests Maori first settled in New Zealand between 1210 and 1385 AD. That is in contrast to Maori genealogy, which […]
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Bryan Fischer, from the American Family Association, freaking out about the UN-DRIP: Perhaps he figures that, as an adopted Crow Indian, he will be the new chief over this revived Indian empire. But for the other 312 million of us, I think we’ll settle for our constitutional “We the people” form of government, thank you […]
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