In the following presentation, Native American activist Ward Churchill offers ones of the most fascinating explorations of colonization I have ever encountered.
He maintains that indigenous people have an inherent right both to self-determination and to fulfill their duty to manage land and habitat to guarantee the survival of their descendants for seven generations into the future.
With colonization, colonists dispossess a native population of their land for some alternative use.
He explains the concept of “settler colonialism” – giving the Nazi occupation of Europe as the prime example (along with the Israeli colonization of Palestine, the European colonization of North and South America and the English colonization of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand).
He also introduces the concept of “false colonization,” which occurs when settlers continue to deprive native peoples of their land and rights despite breaking away from the mother country.
He blames the plight of African…
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At first I thought this was a military-feminist video of a white feminist comparing her drunken nights with the mafia at a party located in an upscale club with that of slavery.