The imposition of fixed borders around territories, resources, and people and the establishment of administrative systems to regulate everything within those borders underwrote the global legitimation of the hegemonic model of sovereignty. In so doing, not only has much of the diversity of human ...
Did the Spanish intermarry Filipinos during colonization? Were the Aztecs Native American? Do non-native people share Clovis genes? Are Hungarians Asian? Are the Germanic peoples and the Vikings related? Did the Caribbean have Indigenous people? Were the Lakota tribe gatherers? Are Russians descenda...
We cannot, for the mental health and recovery of Indigenous people in Canada have always been tied to history, identity, politics, language and dislocation. Thus, in this paper, our aim is to make clear that history, highlight the impacts of colonization and expound on Indigenous healing ...
Indigenous Peoples occupied America hundreds, maybe thousands, of years before colonization. The colonization of America brought about oppression on Indigenous Peoples through struggles against cultural imperialism. The United States government used force or influence upon Indigenous Peoples to submit to their...
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And settler colonialism is not colonialism: settlers want Indigenous people to vanish (but can make use of their labour before they are made to disappear). The Settler Problem frames colonization as an ongoing phenomenon; it’s happening right now and we’re implicated in it, whether we like ...
We adopt their definition of Indigenous Peoples as those who identify as having “descended from populations which inhabited a country before the time of conquest or colonization [and] who retain at least some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions” (Table S1)...
Indigenous Peoples' Day celebrates Native American history and culture, and it dates back farther than you might think. Here's what you need to know.
Over 500 years ago, Christopher Columbus found himself in the Americas, and while he thought he had found Asia, it wasn't until his third trip and the torture and enslavement of many indigenous people before he realized he discovered another continent entirely. ...
generations of schoolchildren is shrouded inmythology. But for the Indigenous peoples who inhabited the Americas long before Columbus ever arrived, Columbus and his namesake holiday represent something much more sinister: the violent colonization of their lands and the brutal treatment of their people....