OMNI
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF AMERICAS DAY (IPAD) (formerly
Columbus Day) NEWSLETTER. Monday,
October 10, 2016.
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace.
OMNI’S NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
DAYS PROJECT
Contents Indigenous People of the Americas DAY (IPAD),
Monday October 10, 2016
Chickasaw
Nation Film,
Reviews of Dunbar-Ortiz,
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United
States
Author’s Summary (Beacon Press)
Dick, Dunbar-0rtiz’s Case, Introduction
and Chapters
Steiner
Interviews Author
Democracy Now, End
Columbus Day
Transform Columbus Day
Rebel Music, Rock
‘N Roll from Native American Heartland check this out
Dick, Letter to
EarthJustice and Nature Conservancy
2014 Program
TEXTS
Chickasaw Nation Film, TE ATA at the Bentonville Film Festival
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All
My
tribe - the Chickasaw Nation - recently released a full length film we produced
highlighting the life of one of our treasured women leaders and performers.
The movie has its first film festival showing outside our Nation at the
upcoming Bentonville Film Festival highlighting the work of women in film.
The screening will be May 4. See the info below. If you
or any of your students would be interested please consider attending.
Our friends at Walmart Tribal Voices mentioned the screening at a
Diversity and Inclusion event yesterday at HQ. Please consider getting
the word out within your circles of faculty, classes, departments and thru NASA
and NALSA and AISES student groups. Thanks!
Janie
From: Dana Lance <Dana.Lance@Chickasaw.Net>
Date: April 22, 2016 at 4:50:59 PM CDT
To: Janie Hipp <janie.hipp2@gmail.com>,
Liz Mashie Gunsaulis <Elizabeth.Gunsaulis@walmart.com>
Subject: Experience TE ATA at the Bentonville Film Festival
AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES by Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz. Beacon P, 2014.
http://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-United-States-P1041.aspx
Publisher’s description:
Description Praise and Reviews Excerpt On Our Blog Media
Coverage Video Reading Group Guides Reader Reviews
The first history of the United States told from the
perspective of indigenous peoples
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred
federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people,
descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land.
The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has
largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian
and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told
from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans,
for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
In An Indigenous
Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the
founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous
peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original
inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this
policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore
Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military.
Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew
Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S.
Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them
only by exterminating them.”
Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic
bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the
silences that have haunted our national narrative.
Introduction, Chapters by Dick Bennett
What is this history about?
The book chronicles a classic case of imperialism and “a
particular form of colonialism—settler colonialism” and its genocidal
consequences. “The history of the United
States is a history of settler colonialism—the founding of a state based on the
ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of African slavery, and a
policy of genocide and land theft” (p.2).
What does it seek to
counteract?
The indoctrination of generation after generation of the US
public to “embrace. . . settler colonialism and genocide.” The “myth
persists” because of a general failure “to ask questions that challenge
the core of the scripted narrative of the origin story.”
What is the “central
question this book pursues”?
“How might acknowledging the reality of US history
work to transform society?” Engaged in
later chapters.
Related, subordinate
questions the book examines? (Probably
at least a dozen stated in this short Introduction: here are a few.)
The real, main motive for the colonies
pursuing independence? Greed for
land and wealth. It was first revealed
legally by the 1787 Northwest Ordinance that provided “the blueprint for
gobbling up the British-protected Indian Territory” (p. 3).
What myths have become doctrine and dogma and
are used to justify motive and Ordinance?
Columbus (p. 4) and “Manifest Destiny,” the “Doctrine of Discovery”
and the Monroe Doctrine.
Why are many traditional histories of the
US flawed? They masked unjust,
brutal reality “with justifications and rationalizations—in short, apologies for
one-sided robbery and murder” (p. 5). “…the
source of the problems has been the refusal or inability of US historians to
comprehend the nature of their own history, US history. The fundamental problem is the absence of the
colonial framework” (p. 7).
How have some commentators used
multiculturalism consciously or unconsciously to reinforce the traditional,
non-Native histories? It is “an
insidious smoke screen meant to obscure the fact that the very existence of the
country is a result of the looting of an entire continent and its resources.”
How did
settler-colonialism/imperialism work? (pp. 6-10)? “The form of colonialism that the
indigenous people of North America have experienced was modern from the
beginning: the expansion of European
corporations, backed by government armies. . .with subsequent expropriation of
lands and resources.” “[That] is a
genocidal policy” (p. 6). “Settler
colonialism…requires violence or the threat of violence to attain its
goals. People do not hand over their
land, resources, children, and futures without a fight, and that fight is met
with violence. . . .Euro-American colonialism, an aspect of the capitalist
economic globalization, had from its beginnings a genocidal tendency.” (p. 8).
Why is the N.
American settler-colonialism genocidal?
All five acts of genocide as described in the 1948 UN
convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide were
committed (p. 8). “From the colonial
period to the founding of the United States and continuing into the
twenty-first century, this has entailed torture, terror, sexual abuse,
massacres, systematic military occupations, removals. . . . The absence of even
the slightest note of regret or tragedy in the annual celebration of the US
independence betrays a deep disconnect in the consciousness of US Americans”
(p. 9).
Was genocide a
deliberate, documented national policy, comparable to that of the Nazis against
the European Jews during WWII? “Documented
policies of genocide on the part of US administrations can be identified in at
least four distinct periods: the
Jacksonian era of forced removal [chapter 6]; the California gold rush in
Northern California [Ch 7]; the post-Civil War era of the so-called Indian wars
in the Great Plains [Ch. 8]; and the 1950s termination period [Ch. 9].” Settler-colonialism is in general however not
comparable to the Nazi “Final Solution” signed at Wansee in that the
extermination was grassroots—the constant pressure of the expanding European
population against the mainly farming Indians for land, a pressure defended by
the US military and other institutions, especially by the reservation system
following military action. Sometimes an
Indian nation would accept the attenuation of their domain “in exchange for US
government protection from settlers” (p. 11).
The process continued through the twentieth century. Exploitation of Indigenous lands “by the
largest corporations…could spell a final demise for Indigenous land bases and
resources” (p. 10). “’in 1881, Indian
landholdings in the United States had plummeted to 156 million acres. By 1934, only about 50 million acres
remained. . . .By 1955, the indigenous land base had shrunk to just 2.3 percent
of its original size” (pp. 11-12).
Did the Indigenous
nations and communities resist? “The
objective of US colonialist authorities was to terminate their existence as
peoples. . . .This is the very definition of modern genocide. . .” But they “have from the beginning resisted
modern colonialism using both defensive and offensive techniques. . . . In
every instance they have fought for survival as people.” (p. 6).
How might this
relentless chauvinistic expansion finally be stopped? The increase of civil rights for
colored peoples and women is a hopeful sign, but no guarantee for Indians. Telling the true history of the nation is the
author’s protest. This book attempts to tell the story of
the United States as a colonialist settler-state, one that, like colonialist
European states, crushed and subjugated the original civilizations in the
territories it now rules” (p. 14).
Is there a connection
between the imperial conquest of the Native Americans and the modern history of
US interventions and invasions of over forty sovereign nations since 1945. “Perhaps it was inevitable that the
earlier wars against Indigenous peoples, if not acknowledged and repudiated,
ultimately would include the world” (p. 12).
Chapter 1, Follow the Corn
There were many well-developed civilizations in the Western
Hemisphere before the European invasion, which devastated them all.
Chapter 2, Culture of
Conquest
Militarized culture began in Europe, which included
exploiting peasants and privatizing the commons. The Spanish and Portugal foreign depredations
centered on gold and land, which led directly to violence and concentration of
wealth.
Chapter 3, Cult of the
Covenant
“…that European colonists shoved aside [Chap. 2] a large
network of small and large nations [Chap. 1]” was consider providential by most
of the colonists.
Chapter 4, Bloody Footprints
From the earliest colonial wars to the present, the US has
practiced “irregular warfare”:
“destroying Indigenous villages and fields and intimidating and
slaughtering enemy noncombatant populations” (p. 58). “The chief characteristic of irregular
warfare is that of the extreme violence against civilians” (p. 59).
Chapter 5, The Birth of a
Nation
Chapter 6, The Last of the
Mohicans and Andrew Jackson’s
White Republic
Chapter 7, Sea to Shining Sea
Chapter 8, “:Indian Country”
Chapter 9, US Triumphalism
and Peacetime Colonialism
Chapter 10, Ghost Dance
Prophecy: A Nation Is Coming
Chap. 11, The Doctrine of
Discovery
Conclusion, The Future of the
United States
Steiner Interviews Dunbar-Ortiz, TheRealNews.com, Oct.
28, 2015
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12578 From Frank Scheide
Inter/Nationalism
Decolonizing Native America
and Palestine
2016
•
Author:
Steven Salaita
Connecting the scholarship and activism
of Indigenous America and Palestine
Steven Salaita argues that American
Indian and Indigenous studies must be more central to the scholarship and
activism focusing on Palestine. His discussion includes a fascinating inside
account of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement; a wide range of
Native poetry; the speeches of U.S. President Andrew Jackson; and the
discourses of “shared values” between the United States and Israel.
This is a powerful and moving analysis of
what it means to decolonize settler societies through an unflinchingly ethical
and incisively original notion of inter/nationalism. Steven Salaita is, as
always, bold, brilliant, and visionary. Inter/Nationalism offers a
searing, comparative analysis of what liberation means in North America and
Palestine-Israel. It is a must read for academics, activists, and anyone
interested in challenging the logics of ethnic cleansing and settler civility.
—
Sunaina
Maira, University of California, Davis
PURCHASE
Available in November 2016
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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TRANSFORM COLUMBUS DAY 2011
Thanks to everyone who came out with us and protested
the celebration of genocide.
Before Columbus sailed the Atlantic, he was a slave
trader for the Portuguese, transporting West African people to Portugal to be
sold as slaves. The Columbus legacy is steeped in blood, violence, and death.
Why Transform
Columbus Day?
The Transform Columbus Day Alliance actively rejects
the celebration of Christopher Columbus and his legacy of domination,
oppression, and colonialism. We also reject historical misconceptions regarding
Columbus and his "discovery" of the Americas.
By saying NO to Columbus and his day we are saying YES
to a new future of mutual respect, collaboration, and equality,
a future that respects...
=the rights of indigenous peoples
=the natural environment
=democratic & economic justice
=gender equity over global patriarchy
=free and equal speech over hate speech
Join us as the struggle continues.
MORE http://www.transformcolumbusday.org
CHALLENGE THE ROOTS OF RACISM IN AMERICA
Columbus is responsible for the murder of millions of
indigenous people.
Columbus was a slave trader in Africa before invading
America. He began the slave trade in the Americas. He deserves no holiday, no
parades, no statues.
Columbus Day celebrates the doctrine of discovery –
the legal process that stole Indian people's territories, and that continues
today.
Columbus brought a philosophy of domination to the
Americas that persists today – domination of other peoples, domination of the
environment, domination of other belief systems, domination of women by men.
Transform Columbus Day Alliance
2011 News and Updates
Thanks to everyone who came out in the rain and snow
and protested the celebration of genocide. Check out the Transform Columbus Day
Denver Facebook page for photos and updates. More will be posted on this site
soon.
Occupy Denver has adopted the Indigenous Platform
proposed by Colorado AIM and supported by the TCD Alliance. Read the article on
Westword.
Transform Columbus Day Alliance 2007 Blog
The tcda blog (www.tcda07.blogspot.com) was created as
a place to share experiences and information from the Columbus Day
confrontation. You can post your story either as a comment (which can be as
lengthy as you like, of course) or by sending it to Carol Berry (chickasaw303@
yahoo.com) who will post the narrative for you.
Media Release May 27, 2008:
Denver's Ultimate Persecution of Columbus Day
Resisters Begins Tomorrow
Vindictive Trial of the Elderly and Disabled Shows
City's True Colors
Democracy Now: Challenging Columbus Day
Robert Robideau: The Myth Keepers of Columbus
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LETTER TO EARTHJUSTICE AND THE NATURE CONSERVANCY about
IPAD By Dick Bennett (Each actual letter
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Preserving life.” The Nature
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Contents Indigenous People of the America’s DAY
Symposium and Resistance to the Western Conquest (Columbus Day), Oct. 13, 2014.
SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAS DAY,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014, FROM 9:30 A.M. TO 9:00 P.M.
Organized by the Native Americans
Symposium Committee, Prof. Frank Sharp, Coordinator.
9:30-11:30 a.m. Indigenous
Food and Agriculture Initiative
The role of indigenous communities in
feeding America and fighting hunger in the past, present and future.
MORE:
http://calendars.uark.edu/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/13/2014&todate=10/13/2014&display=Day&type=public&eventidn=22469&view=EventDetails&information_id=55840
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Indigenous People’s Day Book
Panel
An Indigenous People’s Day book panel
with guest speaker Dr. Joanna Hearne and faculty members Sean
Teuton, associate professor of English, and Toni Jensen, assistant professor of
English in the Walker Room at the Fayetteville Public Library. Dr.
Hearne, from the University of Missouri-Columbia, specializes in Native
American film analysis, and discusses the 1928 version of Ramona extensively in
her book Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the
Western (2012), SUNY Press. MORE:
http://calendars.uark.edu/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/13/2014&todate=10/13/2014&display=Day&type=public&eventidn=22471&view=EventDetails&information_id=55844
Find out more about this silent version of Ramona and Mont
Alto's live accompaniment from the following: http://scvnews.com/2014/03/30/lost-scv-related-1928-film-reappears-after-falling-to-nazis-soviets/
1-2 p.m.
Readings from Native American Writers
http://calendars.uark.edu/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/13/2014&todate=10/13/2014&display=Day&type=public&eventidn=22472&view=EventDetails&information_id=55846
There was a scheduling problem with the Connections Lounge for
our 1:00pm readings. Thanks to Emerald, we have reserved AU 305 as an
alternative space in the Union where we can meet prior to
the 2:00 walk.
2-3 p.m.
Commemorative Walk to Trail of Tears
Marker
http://calendars.uark.edu/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/13/2014&todate=10/13/2014&display=Day&type=public&eventidn=22473&view=EventDetails&information_id=55852
Address error: MLK and Stadium Drive (NOT Garland). It’s across the
street from Fayetteville High School west; south and adjacent to the UA Women’s
Soccer Field. A tiny, lovely park with a large story and message.
MAP TO MARKER
https://www.google.com/maps/place/1100+W+6th+St,+Fayetteville,+AR+72701/@36.0567879,-94.1760006,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87c96f1e9b4044c3:0x7cf6464c3808ff2e?hl=en
7-9 p.m.
Ramona screening featuring
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
http://calendars.uark.edu/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/13/2014&todate=10/13/2014&display=Day&type=public&eventidn=22474&view=EventDetails&information_id=55850
This is a fascinating, engrossing step back into the silent films, when films
were accompanied by a live pianist or organist or orchestra. Really a
once in a lifetime opportunity (unless the orchestra can return next
year). The orchestra comes here from Denver, thanks to the efforts of
Prof. Frank Scheide.
Thanks to Darinda Sharp for the
schedule. Extra notes by Dick Bennett, OMNI Center for Peace, Justice,
and Ecology, supporter of the Symposium and IPAD.
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History of the Conquest
New World Encyclopedia
See OMNI’s Continental
Westward Newsletters and Westward Imperialism Newsletters: http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/09/us-westward-imperialism-newsletter-14.html
Indigenous Education during the Occupation
Rhonda Craven, et al., Education and Equity
Recent OMNI Newsletters
IPAD Newsletters 2012 and 2013
Blog: War
Department/Peace Department
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/
Newsletters:
http://www.omnicenter.org/newsletter-archive/
(see: Interdependence, Internationalism, US Westward Continental Movement and
Occupation, http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/09/us-westward-imperialism-newsletter-14.html etc.)
Index:
http://www.omnicenter.org/omni-newsletter-general-index/
Visit OMNI’s Library.
END INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE OF AMERICAS DAY 2016
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