• tags :: decolonizationcolonialism

Unfortunately I didn't manage to take enough notes while listening to this episode, but these are the highlights from what I remember:

Notes

• Abraham Lincolonoversaw one of the largest land-grabs of Native American lands in US history

• Civil War veterans waged war with Native peoples at previously unprecedented rates

• The Civil Warwas only won because, as W. E. B. Du Boissaid, slaves in the south essentially went on strike

• Native Americans, like any other people under capitalism have a possibility of being subsumed into the capitalist system

  • There are Native peoples who have turned to extractive resources as a means of using it as a cudgel against their oppressors. They are often forced into resource extraction and they never see the wealth of their labor

    • Consider Bolivia and their lithium extraction

  • Native Americans who turn to coal extraction sometimes don't even have power for their communities

• Nick says that Native American populations have high amounts of class consciousness due to the oppression they've faced

• Nick says that, whatever form decolonization takes, it cannot involve the Westphalia model of nation states

  • He also believes it must involve moving beyond capitalism