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We did not comprehend the extent to which colonizers had oppressed Indigenous peoples here in North America.
Only two of us in the class study Native American history, and the rest of us were aware that history had treated our country's Indigenous populations unfairly but did not recognize their status as a colonized people.
Most of us had no illusions about the United States' role as an imperialistic nation, but many believed these actions occurred abroad, not domestically. When we applied this discussion to our situation in the United States, we realized that the majority of the people currently living in this country are colonizers who, whether consciously or unconsciously, exploit Indigenous land and culture. Franz Fanons The Wretched of the Earth discusses the methods that colonized peoples must use to fight their colonizers and overthrow the colonial system. Through our discussions, we realized that our prior education provided us with a remarkably benign definition of colonization, defining this as an era that had long since past and bears no real weight on our current realities. These books have had a profound and fundamental effect on the way we will proceed with our research throughout graduate school, as well as our research and teaching methods.īefore we could begin to grapple intellectually with this theory, our class had to come up with definitions of both colonization and decolonization. Through this class, we had the opportunity to read Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples and Taiaiake Alfred's Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto. Paper, $21.96.Īs first-year graduate students at Arizona State University, we as a group explored the concept of decolonization in a graduate seminar entitled "Decolonizing Indigenous History," taught by Dr. Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 1999. Peace, Power and Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.
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