Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of RecognitionOver the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term recognition shapes debates over Indigenous cultural distinctiveness, Indigenous rights to land and self government, and Indigenous peoples right to benefit from the development of their lands and resources. In a work of critically engaged political theory, Glen Sean Coulthard

Phrases like "clean your room

simple medicines

What the Chickadee Knows (Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan)

mother of Margaret's grandchildren and a key player in helping Margaret share her stories

while she tries to find a connection to her dead mother

resourceful

Miikwan is devastated

what it has been

full of grit

After hundreds of years

cultural studies

also known as Zitkala-Sa