Tournament: CONTENTION ONE IS THE INFINITE CARCASS | Round: Quads | Opponent: Cincinnati zoo | Judge: Harambe
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Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Barrington TC | Judge: Ben Koh

AC

We begin with the story of John T Williams, a woodcarver gunned down by Seattle police for crossing the street holding his carving materials, as told by A Tribe Called Red

Woodcarver

Policing is always averse to indigenous bodies- it is used as a way to quell resistance and criminalize indigenous bodies- Singh 1:

(The Whiteness of Police, Nikhil Pal Singh, Professor of Political theory at NYU, written in "American Quarterly" in 2014.)

The exterminationist pole
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a good job of that kind.10

Policing is always shaped by its relation to indigenous populations, and it always results in death and destruction. However, we can become fugitive, using indigenous art as a trajectory into freedom and away from the violence of settler colonialism. The intersection of Native American art and policing is a crosswalk where a woodcarver carried a block of cedar and a small pocketknife. The officer who killed John T Williams faced no charges and was given paid administrative. Paid administrative leave is utopia for the oppressor, and thus we advocate art as a utopia for the oppressed- Martineau and Ritskes 14:

Jarrett Martineau and Eric Ritskes, Fugitive Indigieity, 2014 (In Dropbox Under Native StudiesArt as Resistance)
These  screams  fracture  the  colonial  veneer  of  aesthetics  defined  in  reference  to Euro  civility  but
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to all aspects of existence including environmental and multidimensional scientific aspects of existence.
Next I present Tony’s story, as told by Leslie Morman Silko- Tony lives on a reservation, and his friend Leon has just gotten home from the war. Unprovoked, an officer attacks Leon and Tony and follows them around. Tony can’t understand why the officer wants to hurt them so badly, and when the officer eventually says that he takes pleasure in beating Indians, Tony becomes convinced that the officer is a demon in disguise and kills him – that’s why we need to operate from a fugitive indigenous starting point- we won’t be able to understand why the institution of policing is structurally oppositional to indigenous bodies unless we begin from the standpoint of Tony and other indigenous people. Tony is a metaphor for policing at large in the context of natives- the settler colonial violence perpetrated against them requires retaliation to preserve life, and we must begin from there to truly understand policing- Thus I affirm the resolution in alignment with “all my relations” through a decolonial fugitive aesthetics- Silko:
http://people.ku.edu/~write-on/203/pdf/Silko20Tony's20Story.pdf
It happened one summer when
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in the west, rain clouds were gathering.
The role of the ballot is to endorse the debater that best situates the decolonial imaginary in the debate space- Grande 4:
Grande, Sandy 2004: Red Pedagogy: Native America Social and Politic Thought. United States of America.  Rowman and Littlefield Publisher Inc. (pp 171-172).
Insofar as strong communicates necessitates earnest and inspired leaders, the search for “comfortable modern identities” remains integral to the quest for sovereignty. The proposed construct of indigena is intended to guide the search for a theory of subjectivity in a direction that
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time, space and tradition.
The aff is “all my relations,” using art to epistemologically relate to nature and propagate indigenous knowledge
Lovern, Lavonna (2008) "Native American Worldview and the Discourse on Disability," Essays in Philosophy: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 14. Available at: http://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/vol9/iss1/14
In the interests of eliminating oppressive behaviors
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scientific aspects of existence. 

As a white person who has never had to deal with settler colonial violence, I have been complicit in these structures. I acknowledge my position as a settler in both this space and the world at large. However, rather than doing nothing, creative forms of solidarity are the best way to help forge native sovereignty- Gaztambide-Fernández 12:

~Rubén A., Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada~ "Decolonization and the pedagogy of solidarity"
Like Sandoval’s differential consciousness, the pedagogy of solidarity "is linked to whatever is
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new possibilities and strengths" (Lorde, 1984, p. 39).

Tournament: Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oakwood AM | Judge: McConway

FW

The standard is resisting orientalism. The Orient is as a geopolitical construct, deeply engrained in Western language, culture, politics, ethics, and ontology. It creates a totalizing East and West, where the East is defined as merely other than the West. A critical centering of Orientalism is an epistemic prerequisite to discussion of global politics, and so is necessitated by the resolution's question of what is ethical for 'countries'. Said:

Orientalism, Edward Said, New York: Vintage, 1979
Taking the late eighteenth century as a very roughly defined starting point Orientalism can be
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without taking account of the limitations on thought and action imposed by Orientalism. 

Orientalism makes global violence inevitable by constructing a perpetual Oriental threat. Jabri:

Professor of International Politics and the Director of the Centre for International Relations at the King's College London 06 ~Vivienne, "War, Security and the Liberal State" Security Dialogue http://sdi.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/37/1/47~~====
What I want to
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enemies, internal and external.

And, academic spaces like debate are uniquely key to interrogating Orientalism from outside its hegemonic grips. Biswas:

Shampa Biswas 2007 Empire and Global Public Intellectuals: Reading Edward Said as an International Relations Theorist
This is especially true for scholars of the global writing in this age of globalisation
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of all, their ability and willingness to be seduced by power.17

To this end, fiat is the best political method. We need to engage in politics and develop pragmatic advocacy skills in order to create any real change. Alinsky gives two warrants:

RULES FOR RADICALS A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals SAUL D. ALINSKY 1971
What I have to say in this book is not the arrogance of unsolicited advice
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of a coming massive repression in the name of "law and order." 

Plan

The NWS/NNWS divide has created a worldview at the heart of this disproportionate enforcement and a new age of nuclear orientalism. Gusterson 1:

Hugh Gusterson. "A Double Standard on Nuclear Weapons?," MIT Center for International Studies Audit of the Conventional Wisdom, 06-08 (April 2006).
There has long been a widespread perception among U.S. defense intellectuals,
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-legal-action-aimed-at-global-nuclear-disarmament

This is especially pressing as we enter a more complex nuclear age in which MAD can no longer protect us. The US and Russia still have more than enough nukes to destroy all life on Earth. Schultz et al 1:

Apart from the
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during the Cold War?

Non-proliferation is futile as long as the western powers the rest of the world must compete with refuse to cooperate on disarmament. Countries naturally want non-proliferation and disarmament, as long as it does not seem to weaken their place in global politics. Gusterson 2:

Hugh Gusterson. "A Double Standard on Nuclear Weapons?," MIT Center for International Studies Audit of the Conventional Wisdom, 06-08 (April 2006).
The second position, participation, is based on Kenneth Waltz's argument that all countries
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to shift the balance of power in their client relationships with the superpowers.

Thus, I advocate for a joint enterprise among nuclear powers and members of the NPT to fully enforce the NPT and move towards global disarmament. Schultz et al 2:

 (A WORLD FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS By George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn The Wall Street Journal January 4, 2007
http://disarmament.nrpa.no/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/A_WORLD_FREE.pdf  DFS)
The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) envisioned the end of all nuclear weapons
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the actions, the vision will not be perceived as realistic or possible. 

Underview

Tournament: Blake | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Louis Park BD | Judge: Alston
We begin with the story of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, a land grant university built on the paradox of stolen land. Peter Kirstein articulates that:
https://academeblog.org/2016/09/04/salaitas-departure-and-the-gutting-of-american-indian-studies-at-the-university-of-illinois/
One of the concerns
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 vital academic program.
The American University is built on a settler colonial project that thrives on the death of indigenous bodies- the sacrifices and struggles for the freedom to speak one’s mind that the resolution asks me to fight for is afforded by curricular violence- before we can fight to protect the right to speak we must examine how what we speak is complicit in and recreates settler colonialism- Gaztambide-Fernandez and Tuck 1: (Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez and Eve Tuck, Curriculum Replacement and Settler Futurity, 2013 http://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct/article/viewFile/411/pdf DFS)
The critical role
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in the way.
Western knowledge production inherently results in violence against native peoples that spans the temporality of the natural world- a decolonial strategy of knowledge comes first- thus the role of the ballot is to combat colonial education- Grande 4:
Grande, Sandy 2004: Red Pedagogy: Native America Social and Politic Thought. United States of America.  Rowman and Littlefield Publisher Inc. (pp 55-56).
However the question of sovereignty is resolved politically, t
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as it is and as it should be” (Alfred 1999, 132).
The colonial curriculum the resolution represents is premised on the excitement of the mind in relation to colonial violence against Natives- the mythic presence of indigeneity haunts the academy and only a deconstruction of the colonial curriculum can solve- Gaztambide-Fernandez and Tuck 2: (Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez and Eve Tuck, Curriculum Replacement and Settler Futurity, 2013 http://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct/article/viewFile/411/pdf DFS)
For John Franklin Bobbitt (1918), recognizing the
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moving toward civilization. 

The discourse that allowed for the destruction of the UIUC natives department is pushed into the temporal horizon when it is decentered- Academic spaces must grapple with their relations to indigenous people- Byrd 11:
Byrd, Jodi (2011). The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism. University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv97j
The Transit of Empire has taken as its point of entry the constellating discourses that
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that seek new lands, resources, and peoples to feed capitalistic consumption.

The result is the logic of elimination that replicates violence in all forms- Wolfe 06:
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native PATRICK WOLFE 2006
The question of genocide
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 genocide studies than others.
Thus I affirm a rematriation of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. This necessitates not just a return of the land, but also a return of the ability to center native epistemology- Gaztambide-Fernandez and Tuck 3: (Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez and Eve Tuck, Curriculum Replacement and Settler Futurity, 2013 http://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct/article/viewFile/411/pdf DFS)
The term rematriation refers to the work of community members and scholars in curriculum studies
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to all aspects of existence including environmental and multidimensional scientific aspects of existence.
The form of relationality that the aff engages in via rematriation is key to move beyond Eurocentric epistemology- Lovern 8:
Lovern, Lavonna (2008) "Native American Worldview and the Discourse on Disability," Essays in Philosophy: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 14. Available at: http://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/vol9/iss1/14
In the interests of eliminating oppressive behaviors
And
scientific aspects of existence.