"Claiming Bad Kin: Solidarity from Complicit Locations" by Alexis Shotwell, Bearing, p. 8-11.

🔗 http://archive.blackwoodgallery.ca/publications/SDUK_03-Bearing.pdf

"Here I explore modes of relationality that might allow us to understand the histories we inherit and the webs of connection that shape the social situations within which we exist. I argue for a specific form of responding to whiteness that involves white settlers claiming rather than disavowing our connection to white supremacist people and social relations. I see at least three different roles we white people can take up in claiming our kin: as friends, comrades, and enemies."

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"I believe we should reject any attempt to translate or transport specific Indigenous kin practices into settler contexts. Holding in view an understanding of colonialism as a structure rather than an event, settlers make terrible kin not because of who particular people are, but because settler colonialism is a structure based on betraying relationality, both historically and in the present."

#amReading #Indigenous

Happy end to a grueling year.

May the next bring many better experiences.

This could prove an interesting model.

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The Land Back Movement Takes Root in Ohio - Native American group seeks Land Back through out-of-state methods

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/land-back-movement-takes-root-ohio

'Ohio was once the homeland of many tribes who were systematically removed from the area. These include the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Seneca, Wyandot, Ottawa, and Kaskaskia. After centuries of displacement and genocide, Native people make up just 0.3 percent of the Ohio population.'
...

'Bereft of a tangible access point for community and culture for Native people in Ohio, “urban Indian centers” popped up in the state in the 1960s and ’70s. The last of those that remains today is the Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio (NAICCO), which serves a statewide intertribal Indigenous community.'

#LandBack #Ohio #Indigenous #Miami #Shawnee #Ottawa #Potawatomi #Delaware #Peoria #Wyandot #Seneca #Kaskaskia #NAICCO #community

Seneca Nation purchases ancestral land within Canawaugus Reservation in Genesee Valley

https://indiancountrytoday.com/the-press-pool/seneca-nation-purchases-ancestral-land-within-canawaugus-reservation-in-genesee-valley

"The nation announced that it has completed the purchase of 1.8 acres of land at 4572 Caledonia Avon Road, in the Town of Caledonia. The parcel, located at the junction of Route 5 and Route 20, is within the boundaries of the Canawaugus Reservation. The purchase marks the Nation’s first step in an effort to return to the Genesee Valley region."

#Seneca #Canawaugus #Genesee #NewYork #Indigenous

Maslow's Hierarchy is Bullshit:
The elite capture of a Blackfoot belief system

https://pattykrawec.substack.com/p/maslows-hierarchy-is-bullshit

"You’re probably familiar with his pyramid of needs and it makes a kind of intuitive sense if you’ve been raised in the western world. The problem is he stole it from the Blackfoot and then inverted it because his hierarchy of needs isn’t intuitive at all, not on a global scale. Maslow took it and then turned it into something that would make maintaining colonial ways of knowing easier while making Indigenous ways of knowing more difficult, seem less reliable."

#maslow #psychology #IndigenousKnowing #EliteCapture #colonialism