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+Educational spaces are not neutral – they can either be unique sites for creating change or can reproduce settler colonialism. To create an emancipatory educational space, we must develop a critical consciousness against colonialism. Thus, the role of the ballot is to affirm the best methodology for deconstructing settler colonialism. |
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+Grande 04 Sandy Grande “Red Pedagogy” 2004 |
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+As we raise … and to be. |
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+The United States government justifies nuclear colonialism on Indigenous lands without taking into account the effects on already impoverished indigenous communities and exploits poor conditions the continue the war against Indigenous people. |
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+Endres 09 Danielle Endres 2009 "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision" www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14791420802632103 |
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+Before attending to … I now turn. |
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+Indigenous sovereignty only ever exists in relation to the USFG recognizing it – USFG control is always a reinstatement of colonial sovereignty— The autonomy of native nations must be the central goal in deconstructing the settler mode of thought. |
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+Lopez 04 Bayley Lopez. Lena Chang Intern at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and currently a sophomore at Stanford University. This Article expresses her point of view as a person of Native American descent. RADIOACTIVE RESERVATION: THE UPHILL BATTLE TO KEEP NUCLEAR WASTE OFF NATIVE AMERICAN LAND. September 1st, 2004. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. https://www.wagingpeace.org/radioactive-reservation-the-uphill-battle-to-keep-nuclear-waste-off-native-american-land/ |
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+The issue of … give them sovereignty. |
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+Thus, we affirm the resolution as an embrace of the politics of impossible – we demand a world in which we kick the US and its nuclear plants off the planet. |
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+Imagining a world where we kick the US off the planet and give back the land is a necessary resistance strategy. Prioritization is key. |
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+Churchill 96 Bracketed for language From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism 1985-1995 |
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+The question which … on attaining it? |
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+The 1AC is not a demand for inclusion—it is a questioning of the system to which we are trying to include native bodies in the first place. Theories that try to make the USFG accessible to oppressed bodies only serves to justify assimilation |
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+Grande 04 Sandy Grande “Red Pedagogy” 2004 |
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+Contemporary revolutionary scholars … and Villenas 2000, 260). |
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+Indigenous land restoration is key to undermine the ability of the state to enforce its codes of Euroamerican centrality which is the root cause of all forms of oppression. |
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+Churchill 96 WARD CHURCHILL, FORMER PROFESSOR OF ETHNIC STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER 1996 “I AM NDIGENIST,” FROM A NATIVE SON PGS 520-30 |
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+Not only is … order on non-Indians. |
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+Opposition must start outside of the state—all of your state good arguments continue to be band-aid alterations that just reinforce the sovereign power of the USFG. |
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+Churchill 3 WARD CHURCHILL, FORMER PROFESSOR OF ETHNIC STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER 1996 “I AM INDIGENIST,” FROM A NATIVE SON PGS 520-30 |
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+That's looking for … the beast's performance. |
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+1. Government policies force Indigenous identity into static conception in order to prove that they are “Native” enough to access reservations. Failing to constantly prove an “Indian” bloodline or embracing fluid identity destroys any possible Indigenous culture because the government dismisses you as not “Indian” enough. Postmodern conceptions of identity fluidity only serve to re-entrench white assimilation and destroy Indigenous culture. |
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+Grande 04 Sandy Grande “Red Pedagogy” 2004 |
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+In response to … of whitestream America. |
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+2. High Theory is not accessible to native scholars—for those whose political voices are already seldom heard, it’s a distraction from real and urgent problems they face in their actual lives, and they cannot afford to think in the abstract. |
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+Grande 04 Sandy Grande “Red Pedagogy” 2004 |
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+Before responding to … indigenous education. |
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+3. Lacanian politics are too pessimistic ~-~-- too theoretical, precludes action and reinforces the worst aspects of the status quo |
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+Robinson 5 PhD in political theory at the University of Nottingham (Andrew, “The Political Theory of Constitutive Lack: A Critique”, Project Muse |
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+Conclusion: The constitutive … plague of fantasies". |