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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
When the ex-mistress of a sinister cocaine wholesaler takes a job as secretary to a Native American clairvoyant who works the TV talk show circuit, she begins transcribing an ancient manuscript that... Read more »
In a unique format of intellectual challenge and counter-challenge prominent Indigenous people of the Americas and Marxists debate the viability of Marxism and the prevalence of ethnocentric bias in politics, culture, and... Read more »
Decolonize This? Properly Defining Settlers
Part 1 of 2