Masks Off: Treaties, Rights, & Their Ideological Function

I woke up a few days ago to the news that sites within Miꞌkmaꞌki were burning.  My kin in Wāpanahkēw have been under siege by white, settler-colonial forces who have engaged in blatant and open acts of anti-Native violence for several days, and this news from the East is just the latest in a line…

“Whose Land?”: Performative Practice and the Analytics of Territory

Property in the forms of leases, jurisdiction, fee simple, and numerous other ways of prescribing land have had a profound material impact on indigenous people—at times it has been a matter of life and death. Mishuana Goeman (2008). Nishnaabeg intelligence has been violently under attack since the beginning days of colonialism through processes that remove…

Marxism, Coloniality, “Man”, & Euromodern Science

While it may be unfashionable in many circles that I move within, I do not, nor have I ever, hidden the fact that for many years my primary theoretical grounding and outlook on the world could best be described as some kind of Marxism.  This was still very much so the case when I began…