Where White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means

Russell Means was, without a doubt, one of the most prominent and courageous American Indian leader’s of the 20th century. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of... Read more »
Conscientization 101 Podcast Ep.053-Ward Churchill WWLW Part 3

EP.053: Wielding Words Like Weapons With Ward Churchill Part 3 of 3

In the riveting conclusion of our three part series with acclaimed American Indian Movement activist-intellectual Ward Churchill about his venerable book Wielding Words Like Weapons: Selected Essays In Indigenism, 1995-2005, we discuss... Read more »

Bury My heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

The popular notion that the United States of America is “a nation of immigrants” is not merely a misnomer, but it is a euphemism that surreptitiously cloaks what it really is…A EUROPEAN/WESTERN,... Read more »

EP.052: Wielding Words Like Weapons With Ward Churchill Part 2 of 3

In part two of this puissant series we discuss Indigenous people in Western cinema. Specifically we discuss the functionality of pejorative depictions of Indigenous people in cinema to the settler colonial project... Read more »
Conscientization 101 Podcast Ep.051-Ward Churchill WWLW Part 1

EP.051: Wielding Words Like Weapons With Ward Churchill Part 1 of 3

Sagacious, trenchant, and decisive are just a few ways to describe the writings of American Indian Movement activist–intellectual Ward Churchill. Informed by praxis, Churchill’s decades of work demonstrate a keen understanding that... Read more »

Wielding Words Like Weapons: Selected Essays In Indigenism, 1995-2005 by Ward Churchill

What does it mean to achieve “progress” within in a settler colonial polity? The question is rhetorical because it can only mean assimilation for the colonized — and to cut through all... Read more »

EP.024: Dr. Julian Kunnie’s The Cost of Globalization Part 2 of 3

In part two of our three part dialogue with Dr. Julian Kunnie about his book, The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the Earth and Its People, we talk about the effects ... Read more »

The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the Earth and Its People by Julian Kunnie

The issues arising from rapid global integration have generally been treated in isolation by most academic works. This volume examines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and Indigenous... Read more »
Conscientization 101 Decolonize This Pt 2

Decolonize This? Properly Defining Settlers
Part 2 of 2

In dealing with colonialism, we must consider the scope of what can be colonized. The conventional wisdom is that colonialism only relates to land and by extension the original occupants of the... Read more »

Decolonize This? Properly Defining Settlers
Part 1 of 2

I want to talk about European settler colonies because, again, we’re dealing with land. A settler colony is an area of land where the European leaves Europe, comes to that area and... Read more »