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on certain federal funds that tribal entities qualify for. What do you say to such proponents?
UM: We cannot not desire protections. We cannot not desire entitlements that we have been authorized to receive by the federal government and state government. It is sensible to understand arguments for federal recognition in the sense that they are arguments to protect our people, our community, and our scarce entitlements that are a product of colonialism. The issue is that it is a small piece of the pie, and I’m not interested in just one piece. I’m interested in the whole pie. That pie is our lands, our resources, our own government and self-governance mechanisms not those small pieces that are gifted by our colonial government.
co-author of
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth, assistant professor of Native American studies and American studies at the University of New Mexico and co-founder of The Red Nation. She is a citizen of the Navajo Nation.
co-author of
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth, an assistant professor of Indigenous politics at the University of Toronto–St. George and a Kanaka Maoli scholar and activist.
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On Earth Day, we host an extended conversation with two of the two dozen Indigenous scholars behind the new book, “The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth,” described as “not simply a response to the Green New Deal nor a bargain with the elite and powerful. It is a deal with the humble people of the earth; an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for human and other-than-human life to live with dignity. It is a pact with movements for liberation, lif
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On Earth Day, we speak with two of the more than two dozen Indigenous authors of a new book that looks at the history of resistance against colonialism and capitalism and lays out a vision for the future to address the climate crisis. “The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth” details the centuries of Indigenous resistance that created the movement at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access pipeline and what movements centering justice for Indigenous people must look like. The book offers a “people’s program to prevent extinction,” says Melanie Yazzie, assistant professor of Native American studies and American studies at the University of New Mexico and co-author of “The Red Deal.” “The plan is really clear. The stakes are really clear,” Yazzie says. “We draw centrally from Indigenous movements over the last couple of decades for decolonization.” We also speak with Uahikea Maile, an assis
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The Biden administration is set to officially recognize a Native Hawaiian government. That may sound positive, but it isn’t
A car license plate seen in Maui, Hawaii. Photograph: Stephen McLaren/The Guardian
A car license plate seen in Maui, Hawaii. Photograph: Stephen McLaren/The Guardian
Thu 4 Mar 2021 15.24 EST
First published on Thu 4 Mar 2021 06.12 EST
Since the state of Hawaii reopened to visitors in October 2020, more than 650,000 people have flown to the islands. After arriving, some tourists are receiving vaccines before local residents, even though Pacific Islanders are disproportionately affected by Covid-19. Despite the influx, visitor numbers are still lower than usual, leaving the state’s economy – which is overly dependent on tourism and military dollars – in shambles.