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+====The aff ignores the prior question of Native American colonization. Where are we? How did we get here? What right does our government have to exist? They fail to come to terms with a basic material fact: we are colonial occupiers of stolen land. Failure to address these questions means that their politics of liberation will fail. ==== |
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+**Churchill, 03** (Ward, Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader, "I am Indigenist: Notes on the Ideology of the Fourth World"). |
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+Leaving aside questions concerning the validity of various treaties, the beginning point for any |
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+for attainment of everyone seriously committed to accomplishing positive change in North America. |
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+====Their project is destroyed by the failure to address colonial violence. No state can both wage a racist war within its borders and claim to engage in politics of liberation. Moreover, they will make things WORSE because the continued failure of progressivism will result in a public disenchanted with the very notion of fundamental change.==== |
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+**Churchill, 03** (Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader. THE NEW FACE OF LIBERATION: |
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+Indigenous Rebellion, State Repression, and the Reality of the Fourth World). |
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+It's time to stop fantasizing and confront what this consummation might look like. To |
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+question, then, comes down to where to look for a replacement. |
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+====Given the aff's negligence, our alternative is to prioritize land return. This must come before engaging the aff, which abandons material questions in favor of theoretical gestures that only serve to comfort colonial oppressors. ==== |
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+**Churchill, 03** (Ward, Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader, "I am Indigenist: Notes on the Ideology of the Fourth World"). |
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+Not only is it perfectly reasonable to assert that a restoration of native control over |
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+make themselves part of the problem rather than becoming part of the solution. |
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+====Taking the decolonization of North America seriously is the only way to control the state. It is impossible to end oppression without starting in Indian Country. Otherwise, extinction is inevitable. ==== |
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+**Churchill, 03** (Ward, Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader, "Radioactive Colonization"). |
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+It is worth observing that the ensuing decolonization of Native North America would offer benefits |
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+goes around, comes around, " as Charlie Manson liked to say). |