Tournament: Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Bettendorf RN | Judge: Martin Sigalow

Begin by playing The Halluci Nation by a Tribe Called Red

The affirmative attempts to interrogate the violence committed against Native people but they fail to interrogate the assumptions and Eurocentric logics of their liberal politics.  They do not bring decolonization and indigenous sovereignty but simply expand the power and legitimacy of the settler state.

Instead, the role of your ballot should be to endorse hallucination through a de-colonial fugitive aesthetics. Decolonial fugitivity provides illegible creative alternatives to thought and action and demands the end of the world   Artistic and aesthetic praxis can disrupt settler colonialism and provide movement beyond geopolitical violence. 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 realize the potential freedom found in our creative transformation of the world.

Now, here are a bunch of reasons why my performance and method are more effective at deconstructing settler colonialism and thus environmental racism.

First, the 1AC is an act of settler futurity. It endorses settlement as something to be continued, furthering the ongoing elimination of native people. The speech act renders a settler future knowable and ethical through performance. The advocacy recuperates settler colonialism through reform and critique.  To affirm is to work under the assumption that the settler-state can actually be ethical. Gaztambide-Fernandez and Tuck 13

Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez and Eve Tuck, Curriculum Replacement and Settler Futurity, 2013 (In Dropbox Under: Native StudiesSettler Colonialism as Structure)
The settler colonial curricular project of replacement is invested in settler futurity, or what
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now-settlers in the ways that settler futurity requires of Indigenous peoples.

Second, the 1AC's liberalism and demand for equality and recognition strengthens the settler state's claim to sovereignty by allowing it to determine what statues and positionalities are deemed meaningful and worth saving.  This forecloses upon the possibility of an indigenous normativity free from settler control.  Rifkin 09:

Mark Rifkin, Indigneizing  Agamben, 2009 (In Dropbox under Native Studies Land and Geography)
Both of these strategies within Indigenous political the- ory treat sovereignty as a particular
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, and dependent on, the "peculiar"-ization of Native peoples.

Third, your framing is completely wrong.  Settler colonialism is a structure, not an event, and is based in a "logic of elimination."  Solving for one particular instance of violence simply hides the large structure.  Its racialized logic necessitates the geophysical, cultural, and biological elimination of natives.  Wolfe 06:

Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native PATRICK WOLFE 2006
The question of genocide is never far from discussions of settler colonialism. Land is
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colonialism. Some of them are more controversial in genocide studies than others.

Fourth, my performance is an act of critical solidarity, a method of expression that produces new worlds.  Instead of simply demanding that Native folks put up with current system or follow their plan text, we stand with them as allies willing to accept 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).