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Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native

Patrick Wolfe
- 21 Dec 2006 - 
- Vol. 8, Iss: 4, pp 387-409
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The question of genocide is never far from discussions of settler colonialism Land is life or, at least, land is necessary for life Thus contests for land can be—indeed, often are—contests for war crimes as mentioned in this paper.
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The question of genocide is never far from discussions of settler colonialism Land is life—or, at least, land is necessary for life Thus contests for land can be—indeed, often are—contests for li

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Decolonization is not a metaphor

TL;DR: The authors analyze multiple settler moves towards innocence in order to forward an ethic of incommensurability that recognizes what is distinct and what is sovereign for project(s) of decolonization in relation to human and civil rights based social justice projects, and point to unsettling themes within transnational/Third World decolonizations, abolition, and critical space-place pedagogies, which challenge the coalescence of social justice endeavors, making room for more meaningful potential alliances.
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Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

TL;DR: Coulthard et al. as discussed by the authors described the Red Skin, White Masks (RSW) as "a kind of red skin, white masks" with a white mask.
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Land education: Indigenous, post-colonial, and decolonizing perspectives on place and environmental education research

TL;DR: Land education: Indigenous, post-colonial, and decolonizing perspectives on place and environmental education research as mentioned in this paper is a special issue of Environmental Education Research, which introduces the importance of land education.
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How Did Colonialism Dispossess? Comments from an Edge of Empire

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the power underlying the reserve (reservation) system in British Columbia, a system that, by allocating a tiny fraction of the land to native people and opening the rest for development, facilitated the geographical reorganization of the province.
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American Indian holocaust and survival : a population history since 1492

TL;DR: The authors describes how the holocaust had as its causes disease, warfare and genocide, removal and relocation, and destruction of aboriginal ways of life, and discusses in detail how many Indians there were, where they had come from, and how modern scholarship in many disciplines may enable us to make more accurate estimates of aboriginal populations.
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The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians

TL;DR: The one-volume version of "The Great Father" was published in 1984 and won the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) as mentioned in this paper.
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The meaning of race : race, history and culture in Western society

Kenan Malik
TL;DR: The Meaning of Race as discussed by the authors argues that the social meaning of race in modern society emerges from the contradiction between an ideological commitment to equality and the persistence of inequality as a practical reality.